[newbie] installation of alsa for yamaha sound card

2001-01-22 Thread nomad creaktop
Basically i've got a problem with installing the alsa drivers 0.5.9d ; 0.5.10 and 0.5.10a for my yamaha pci sound card on Linux-Mandrake 7.2 . In 7.1 where my sound didn't work at all, i installed 0.5.9d without a problem. However, in 7.2 i have got sound but the quality is absolutely terrible.

Re: [newbie] partition info destruction

2000-11-25 Thread nomad creaktop
Ok, I finally made it... thanx everyone for the help... I used linux fdisk on the Lnx-Mdk 7.2 install disk, in rescue mode, it's amazing how much more powerful it is than DOS fdisk, wow... Here's what i did: linux fdisk said that the partition with windows on it was an extended linux partition

[newbie] how 2 change 2 command line

2000-11-02 Thread nomad creaktop
OK, I want to do some administrative things that I need to do on command line, without X running (like sndconfig, etc.) In the installation (Custom), I selected to boot to X. Is there an easy way to exit X, either during boot, or afterwards (preferable). I haven't found anything in the applica

[newbie] hard drive & CD ROM not found on bootup

2000-10-28 Thread nomad creaktop
Hi all I hope you can help me ... When I boot up Linux-Mandrake 7.1 it naturally looks for both my hard drive and CD ROM, but it can't find them, so it starts Kudzo. (Which it also does when my external modem is switched off - that's a real nuicance!) There it gives me the three options: rem

Re: [newbie] re:7.2 stuff

2000-10-28 Thread nomad creaktop
At 03:01 PM 00/10/28 -0700, you wrote: >nomad creaktop wrote: >[snip] > > Did you order 7.2 beta 3 or 7.2 final ? > > If final, then how because there isn't a link there for ordering it... > > or can you pre-order and how ??? >[snip] > >creaktop.it&#

Re: [newbie] re:7.2 stuff

2000-10-28 Thread nomad creaktop
At 10:57 AM 00/10/28 -0700, you wrote: >The 7.2 that you download will have the final kde2 files. The >7.2 that will be sold via retail will have kde1.99 and they will >patch it via MandrakeUpdate. This is from one of the VP's of >MandrakeSoft. > >The posts that come from [EMAIL PROTECTED] or s

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread nomad creaktop
At 10:51 AM 00/10/28 -0400, you wrote: > > 7.2 final just began showing up on Mandrake ftp mirrors late > > yesterday (10/27). The cheap CD sites will prob'ly have it > > available in a day or two. The retail box sets will more likely be > > two weeks. > >Can someone from Mandrake tell us