Re: Newbie comments & queries
> 1. The old machine had a sound card after all. How can I
> configure that without another reinstall?
Depends. Modconf should let you look at the modules available for the
kernel, one of those may support your card. lspci will show what th card is
if it is pci. Isa cards a pain. Look at the sound howto for assistance.
>
> 2. I have read some of the HOWTO files particularly the one on
> printing. This is a file ending in .gz and I cannot get it to
> print out. Do I have to extract that particular file out of the
> eng.txt first ? If so, how?
zless allows you browse it, zcat gunzips and cats. E.g zcat <file>.gz | lpr
>
> 5. I see that my SiS6215 video card is listed on the Xfree86 site
> as a supported card, but it was not detected in the initial
> install. xviddetect does not now detect it properly, listing it as
> maybe a SiS 82C204 along with other possibilities. I declined to
> write the xwin (?) config file on the last install as it would not
> detect the video card and came up with error 111 when i tried to
> write it previously. What do I do now? It detects a borrowed
> Trident TGUI9440 OK but maybe I can't keep that.
Uhm, the card may be supported only by the 4 releae of Xfree86. Try anxious
(spelling?) to configure your card.
>
> 6. My PS2 mouse does not work on this machine (not in dos either,
> so maybe the port is broken) so how do I change this to a plain
> serial mouse? In XF86Setup I cannot get the serial mouse to go
> with _any_ settings either.
Right serial port? /dev/ttyS[0|1]
>
> I would appreciate it if someone could point me in the right
> direction here. (I am now sort-of vi competent so can edit files
> OK).
Try ae, its a real editor. :)
I dont have a potato box so this is just from memory.
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Rob 'robster' Bradford
Chief Editor/Lead developer
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