jlc Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 either via apt http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE...rnel-of-the-day ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE...0-i386/RPMS.kde or try open-carpet http://open-carpet.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plati Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 Just in reply to your saying that mandrake felt newb-ish and debian felt too expert-ish. I tried mandrake first then debian and had the same experience. I just installed fedora a couple of days ago and its running beautifully. Doesnt feel too newb really, yet its setup is very intuitive. It has equivalents to the MCC and urpmi too! If you want to read up about its features and windows equivalents go to -> http://www.johnmunsch.com/articles/FedoraC...GettingStarted/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tek Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 (edited) Debian has a few config tools you can use, if you know the name of the package usually you can run debconf-(name of package) to configure it. there is also a program you can install via apt-get called configure-debian (its ncurses based) that allows you to configure pretty much everything. some of your config can also be done in kcontrol assuming your running kde. I have had issues with sound and here are some quick pointers you may try out to help. take a small file, text or whatever and try cat'ing it into /dev/dsp cat smallfile.txt > /dev/dsp do you get sound? try this as a user and as root, if you get something as root and not as a user then its a perms problem. run ls -l /dev/ds* you may find something like this. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 3 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 19 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 35 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 51 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp3 this would indicate proper permissions, you might however find something more like this lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp1 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 35 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp2 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 51 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp3 which would mean sound only works for user root and user audio and your probably not logging in as either of them. chmod 666 /dev/ds* should solve your problem. also try sndconfig to get audio working and last but not least if none of this helps run lsmod to make sure your even loading the modules for audio. HTH Tnt http://www.pervasivenetwerks.com Edited June 4, 2004 by tek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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