[newbie] Sound Blaster Problems

2000-11-26 Thread Philip Ferguson
Hello. I have a soundblaster pro soundcard. For some reason, I can't find soundrake, so I used sndconfig to setup the sound card. Now it works with midi and wav files, but it sounds sort of "gurrgully" ... not very clear. Also, I can't hear any CD sound from it. Any ideas? Phil __

[newbie] Some 7.2 issues with sound, printing and netscape

2000-11-25 Thread Philip Ferguson
Hello. I just installed 7.2 on my IBM Aptiva (Pentium 233). I'm having a few problems. First of all, my netscape button bar is in black and white, but all other colours are working out fine. Secondly, I have a crystal sound card (the ones that come with an Aptiva) and I can't get it to work

[newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-11-21 Thread Philip Ferguson
ake Update know that it's already updated so that when I go into Mandrake Update again, it won't try to update the kernel all over again? Thanks, Philip Ferguson MIT Space Systems Lab _ Get more fro

Re: [newbie] bz2 files

2000-09-19 Thread Philip Ferguson
Thanks very much! It works great now! Phil >From: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [newbie] bz2 files >Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:12:27 -0400 > > >- Original Message --

[newbie] bz2 help!

2000-09-19 Thread Philip Ferguson
Hello. For some reason, my last e-mail didn't go through. If it is going through and just a little slow, then I appologize for sending 2. Anyway, can someone please tell me how to unzip files with a bz2 extension? Thanks, Phil

[newbie] bz2 files

2000-09-19 Thread Philip Ferguson
Hello. I was wondering if anyone could help me with this. What is the differnece between files with a .gz extension and files with a .bz2 extension? How can I extract a file with a .bz2 extension? Thanks, Phil _ Get You

[newbie] PCMCIA Ethernet Card

2000-09-12 Thread Philip Ferguson
Hello again. First of all, thanks to everyone that helped me out earlier. Everyone has been a great help. I'm now entering the world of PCMCIA eithernet cards. I have a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 PC Card. I'm using a Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT Laptop. The instructions for the card say that

Re: [newbie] Kmenuedit is not instlled

2000-09-08 Thread Philip Ferguson
Thank you a million times over! Phil >From: Barry Premeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] Kmenuedit is not instlled >Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 11:28:29 -0700 > >Philip Ferguson wrote: > > > H

[newbie] Serial Port

2000-09-08 Thread Philip Ferguson
Which one of the millions of entries in my /dev directory is my serial port? Thanks, Phil _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public

Re: [newbie] Minicom Program

2000-09-08 Thread Philip Ferguson
r a serial link. Any suggestions? Where can I get this configuration file? Thanks, Phil >From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] Minicom Program >Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 19:48:54 +0100 (BST) > >On F