on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:55:44AM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus (tbartholomaeus@railwayscreditunion.com.au) wrote: > I recently installed Netscape Communicator, which works great, except > that I can't run it as root due to "security reasons". Does anyone > know how I can get around this? Don't run it as root. > Also, I will soon need to set up my souncard. This is my first > experience with Debian, so I don't know which tools (if any) are > available to help with this. On Redhat I used sndconfig, which worked > like a charm... this was the first time I had ever got sound working > without having to edit config files and set IRQ's, etc. and it was a > great relief. I see that sndconfig is part of Debian's "testing" > distro now, I tried to install it with dselect, but it wanted to > install over 200MB of packages, so I told it to get knotted... > > So, any ideas on soundcard configration (it's an elderly SB16, btw) or > am I back to the ol' isapnp method? Read the HOWTOs. SB16 is well supported, I don't know particulars. In general, you'll need the driver, try loading it and playing sounds, if that doesn't work, get the card's IO address and IRQ. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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