[newbie] More info on sound card problem

2001-05-05 Thread Kriselda Jarnsaxa
I'd written earlier about problems I'm having getting my ESS Solo 1 sound card to work under LM 8 (I'm on a Presario 1800T Laptop). In short, I can play audio CDs and I can hear the "system beep", but no other sound functions work. In looking through the configuration areas, so far everywhere I'v

[newbie] Laptop monitor problem

2001-05-05 Thread Kriselda Jarnsaxa
I'm on a Presario 1800T with a 15" TFT "base model" monitor. I called Compaq and they can't tell me if there's a specific model name or number for this monitor. When Linux-Mandrake detects the monitor, it chooses the "High Frequency Super VGA, 1024x768 at 70 mHz", so I just take that since I don

[newbie] Sound problems

2001-05-03 Thread Kriselda Jarnsaxa
I'm setting up a new LM 8.0 system and am running into some weird problems with my sound configuration. First, computer specs: Compaq Presario 1800T Laptop PIII 750 320 megs RAM ATI Mobility Rage video card ESS Solo integrated sound card 3.5 gig partition for Linux system & programs, ReiserFS for

[newbie] Getting Java to work

2001-05-03 Thread Kriselda Jarnsaxa
I thought I'd installed Java on my system, but Netscape and Mozilla give errors indicating that they can't find it, and Konquerer, while not giving any error messages, cannot display any Java, either. I was directed to the http://home.netscape.com/plugins/jvm.html page to get Java for Linux Netsc