Re: several problems with a new installation (hey, I'm learning)
On 16-Oct-97 Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 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.
Okay, I will look into that. Where is the Sound-HOWTO? Where are all of the ho
w to's? Sorry for dumb questions.
>
>> 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.
When I run "startx" the information is removed by the switch to graphics mode to
o fast for me to see. What is the easiest way of capturing the output? I can n
ot get xdm to work. It launches okay, and sits in memory, but it never puts up
a login. Since I can just use startx, I have not looked into why it does not wo
rk.
>
>> 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...
>
I think that I have this one under control. I use Fvwm2 and the xpmroot command
to set a background. I just compiled ImageMagix on my system that will transla
te most formats into xpm. Now for the hunt for a good picture (I like outdoors
pictures or space pictures).
Richard A. Guay
Network Administrator
ASIC International Inc.
rag@asicint.com
http://www.asicint.com
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