Re: several problems with a new installation (hey, I'm learning)
On Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 03:04:47PM -0500, Richard A. Guay wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a list of problems that I need help with:
> 2) I can not get the sound to work! If I execute "cat bong.au >/dev/audio" I g
> et "zsh: no such device: /dev/audio" (I did the cat at root level, so it is not
> a permissions conflict). How do I check for the drivers for the audio board? I
> t is IBM MWave sound card.
Did you recompiled the kernel, enabling sound support ? (It is not done by
default, the standard kernel is big enough, supporting all possible hard
discs etc). Install the kernel-sources, kernel-package and other packages
mentioned in the README filel from kernel-packages, than follow the
documentation to rebuild the kernel. See the Sound-HOWTO for more details
about your sound card.
> 3) How do I check the number of bit planes being used by the xserver? I seem t
> o still run out of colors with a S3-Virge board with 2 Megs of RAM! How do you
> specify the resolution and number of bit planes to come up in with startx?
Look at the error output, if you use startx. If you use xdm, do:
# cat /var/log/xdm-errors
[...]
(--) S3: Using Trio32/64 programmable clock (MCLK 59.957 MHz)
(--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 80.000 MHz
(**) S3: Mode "1024x768": mode clock = 75.000
(**) S3: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 50.000
(**) S3: Using 16 bpp. Color weight: 565
(--) S3: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768
(--) S3: Local bus LAW is 0xFB000000
(--) S3: Using a banksize of 2048k, line width of 1024
(--) S3: Using a single 64x64 area at (960,769) for expanding pixmaps
(--) S3: Using 16 planes of 960x255 at (0,769) aligned 8 as font cache
Notice the 16 planes = 16 bit = 16 bpp
The resolution is set in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config, the bpp's with
startx -- -bpp 16
IIRC. There are other ways, please look in the mailing archive at
www.debian.org for more of them. (xdm is set in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers:
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -bpp 16
for example.
> 4) Where can I look to find some good background pictures in xpm format?
What do you like? Search with your favourite web engine (www.yahoo.com for
example). If the pronounciation is on xpm format, then please notice, that
you can convert any format in xpm with many tools (xv, netpbm, ...).
But are you sure you need xpm format?
This depends on your window manager and the packages installed...
Marcus
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Marcus Brinkmann
Marcus.Brinkmann@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/
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