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I no longer get the the "partions overlapping" message. Now I wonder what I have and what I should do (if anything). hda: mount point /home, hda6,journ FS:ext 3, 68GB(91%),formatted,mounted mount point /,hda1, journ FS:ext 3, 5.9GB (7%),formatted,mounted mount point swap, hda5,Linux swap,494MB (0%), formatted,mounted hdb: mount point swap, hdb5,DOS drive letter C(just a guess),Linux swap,9.5GB(99%),formatted,mounted. To get rid of that "partitions ovelapping" message, I moved whatever it was on hdb to /mnt/windows. When I got to that location I se 0 items,0 files, 0 Directories. ??? I know I need to spend a couple of months trying to understand 'partioning'. but I want to get on with making sound, email, and a lot of other applications working. Any thoughts, or advice? Thanks, John

I installed M9.1 and have some things running, but I wondered how the install partitioned the 80 GB and 20 GB hard drives. When I opened Mount Points, I received this message: "partitions sector #16450560 (1.7GB) and sector #13285818 (41GB) are overlapping." Not knowing what to do, I checked ok (twice) and got a multicolor display showing file types along with hda and hdb tabs. The 'hda' screen shows: Mount point: /home, device hda6, Journalised FS: ext3, 68GB(91%), formatted, mounted. The "Filesystem types:" color bar lists Ext2. Journalised FS, Swap, Windows, Other, Empty. (no ext 3) The color bar below 'hda' shows '/','s',''/home' Selecting '/', Mount point /,Device:hda1,Type Journalised FS ext3,Size 5.8GB(7%),formatted, Mounted. Selecting 's', mountpoint swap, device hda5, type Linux swap, size 494MB (0%),formatted,mounted. The 'hdb' screen shows: device hdb3, DOS drive letter C (just a guess), Type: Win98 FAT32, LBA-mapped, size 1.7GB (17%). Selecting the first color bar under 'hdb", the info is: device hdb1,type Journalised FS ext 3, size 5.8GB (61%). Selecting 's', device hdb1, type Journalised FS: ext3, Size 5.8GB (61%) Selecting the third color bar under 'hdb', shows; Device hdb6, Type Linux native, Size 41GB (432%) - yes that's 432%! My goal was to figur out what that "partitions overlapping" message was, but I am totally confused. Any guidance? John Penasack

I got sound and I really want to thank you for all your help. This entire Linux installation is rewarding, although it feels like I am in a library without any card index and no shelf markings. As suggested, I went to Google, found a classical music site (my preference) and downloaded a 'mid' random file. I opened KMidi, turned the volume knob on the speaker to max, and got sound. Setting on KMidi was 40% and I didn't know where to go to adjust that. Volume pulldown on KMidi had 'linear', 'exp4' and 'exp6', which was meaningless to me and didn't change the volume. Then downloaded an MP3, opened Kaboodle and "heard ?" what sounded like squirrels running on a tin roof. Tried another .mid and got acceptable, low volume performance. I thought the easiest solution to checkout sound would be to link to a radio station, something I do with my WIN computer. Looks like I have to spend time understanding wav, MP3, midi, and whatever, first.

Had Aumix installed. Found Kmix and think I set all the volumes to around 50%. I don't know how to test, unless I install a music CD? I'm having a difficult time with Linux because I can't seem to locate information about a specific subject. As an example, how would I find the documentation that would tell me that I should have Kmix, not Aumix? John

No indications that 'Running "/usr/sbin/draksound" ... works. M9.1 on a Gateway 400MHz, 256 RAM. Sound - KDE Control Center details: Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.9.Orc8 emulation code) Kernel: Linux localhost 2.4.21-0.13mdk #1 Config options:0 Installed drivers: Type 10 ALSA emulation Card config: Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1370 at 0x1080, irq 11 Audio devices: 0:ES1370 DAC2/ADC (DUPLEX) Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Midi devices: 0:ES1370 Timers: 7:system timer Mixers: 0:Asahi Kasei AK4531. Ran through the 'Sound trouble shooting commands. 0:off, 1:off,2:on,3:on,4:on,5:0n,6:off (Really don't know what this means.) Yes, I'm a Newbie