Posts by Sez

I've heard of the firewire problem elsewhere on these forums, but it didn't bite me (I'm using Mandrake, though). I guess you'll have to boot your CD in rescue mode (when you boot the install CD, hit F1 for more options, and it...

One thing about the sound, Ratha. I ran into this and once xiphux explained it to me, I felt pretty sheepish. So don't worry about it -- others have made this same mistake: Open alsamixer (I guess you'll have to recompile with alsa...

You should be pleasantly surprised when you get Linux on your machine that all of that should work except for the modem. For the modem, try http://www.linmodems.org. To see which modem you have, as root from a command prompt, type:...

Yup, that did it. Recompiling with usb as modules (I think part of my problem is the Mandrake init scripts expect just about everything to be modules) got me the usb mouse with wheel, but the touchpad still wasn't working. This got...

The only problem was, in this case, I couldn't use the binary kernel, so I'm learning a whole lot about the way Linux works than I ever knew before. I spent most of today going back to kernel 2.4 on this machine. I bought the Sager...

Quote: Originally posted by xiphux that's right; i forgot about the new config file. i didn't notice since gentoo took care of the switching for me. I thought I should let you know that I'm back to working on...

Whoa; they really moved the forums around here. Quote: Originally posted by xiphux or, as a last resort, you could just add 'modprobe radeon' to your local rc file... rc.local or whatever it is. i'm glad you finally got...

Quote: Originally posted by xiphux just a quick question - the sound is unmuted, right? (it's muted by default, and alsamixer lets you change the volume while the channel's still muted. it took me some time to figure out...

Quote: Originally posted by xiphux are there any sound daemons running? kill esd and arts (i think the process is called artsd). they take control of the sound device and mess up programs trying to access alsa directly. ...

Sound: I have everything compiled as modules, which is the way Mandrake's startup scripts want them. Otherwise, I did everything the same as you: no OSS, and only selected the Intel module. Every indication is that it's working: all the...