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samba is not installed on windows. samba is a free implementation of the SMB protocol which microsoft adopted a while ago to use with native windows networking... i think. mounting a windows drive that you have in the same computer is...
yes, i suppose that's another solution - turn samba off completely. you may still want to have samba installed to access _his_ computer or something... but if you don't run a server and share the stuff then he can't get to it.
let me get this straight - you're in linux with your windows drive mounted and your files shared with samba - and you're wondering if your roommate could access your samba share and read your private files? it depends on whether or...
are you doing this the way i think you are? (/proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling) throttling is different from cpu frequency scaling. desktop cpu's - like the one the 8886 - can't dynamically scale the frequency - only moblie...
the driver i use is snd-intel8x0. or just 'intel8x0' for the ALSA_CARDS variable. hmm, i just checked and i don't have any problems accessing the soundcard matrix...
sorry i couldn't be of more help, but i guess i'm used to the gentoo forums, where people give a little more about the error than just 'my sound doesn't work.' i've actually never used LFS, however, there are a few things you can check...
well it would be kinda useless to write up a step-by-step guide for alsa since there are so many out there already. what's the problem? like, where does it go wrong - is the kernel configured correctly, does the kernel module load or...
i think everyone has their own favorite distro, and there isn't really any 'holy grail.' but i'll give you my opinion... i like and use gentoo. you'd probably like it, especially if you like the speed of LFS, because they both are...
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