28 Feb
2003
28 Feb
'03
3:14 p.m.
8.2 is rather quirky. I'd go with 9.0.
Apart from that, here are my thoughts on the issues you've been having:
1. The CD drive is actually a Toshiba DVD drive.
Mandrake
installed
all
right from it but afterwards is unable to read from any disc I insert.
All I get is an uninformative "input/output error".
check /etc/fstab and see whether it uses supermount (which to me never
worked just right) and change it to good ole /dev/cdrom, or even better
(if it is dvd drive) to /dev/scd0. Also make sure to make appropriate
corrections to modules.conf and lilo in order to avoid cdrom module
loading (u will be emulating scsi device -- I am not sure if this is
necessary for dvd, but is definitely needed for any kind of cdr or rw
work).
2. The sound configuration is a joke, right ? I boot
into KDE
and
hear
the KDE tune just fine, but when I try to run any bundled sound
application (XMMS, MIDI synth, etc) I get an error saying that the
output device is unreachable. When I test sound using the Drake tool
it
says it's playing an 8-bit sample but I hear
nothing. The tool asks
only
if you do or do not hear the sample, it offers no
advice on what to do
if you don't hear anything.
Did you disable the KDE sound server Arts (go to kde control center to
find out more)? This is a known issue due to fact that arts is not
compatible with all apps. You can use a hack similar to ld_preload stuff
by typing artsdsp <appname> <params>, to try to hook up the app to the
artsd even if it does not support it natively.
3. The Internet configuration informs me that I have
no
connection
even
when I do.
No idea here, sorry. Again, try 9.0, it worked fine for me.
4. The GCC 2.96 is weird, yes ? When I ran
./configure for the
latest
ALSA I get an error telling me that the C compiler cannot produce
executables. This, whether I'm normal user or root. Whafug??!!
Sorry, can't help ya here either :-(.
Hopefully this helps some. Regards,
Ico