Re: a couple of questions
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 02:36:33AM +0000, =: !! wrote:
> Hi! I just wanted to ask a couple of questions:
>
> 1. I just installed a compatible soundcard and I want to know how to make
> debian recognize it.
I don't think the stock Debian kernel has sound support built in. You
may need to compile a new kernel (not hard -- really!). The harder part
is getting the correct driver configured and your hardware recognized.
You'll have to give more information about the type of sound card
(ISA|PCI) and what you've tried thus far.
> 2. I just recently installed a new browser netscape 407 but when I try to
> launch it nothing happens. I even tried installing mosaic too but mosaic is
> not visible in my gnome desktop environment. I do not know whats wrong can
> somebody please advice?
Well, it's probably not not doing anything. Try launching it from an
xterm by typing in `netscape'. It may be seg-faulting automatically.
It may be you don't have all of the parts installed (unlikely if it's on
your menu) or it's having problems with libc5 compatibility.
I think the Mosaic package has a bug report against it for not setting
up a menu entry properly. You can try it from the command line with
`mosaic'. It's a poor substitute though.
> 3. is there a command to see packages that are available in the debian ftp
> server after apt-get update?
dpkg --print-avail <package>
or
dpkg -l '*' > dpkg.list
Since there are so many packages (4000+), you'd be better off browsing
them from Debian's website or through dselect
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