Re: Installation
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 11:00, YH wrote:
> Thanks Sam, your comments are indeed helpful. Both problems have been
> resolved.
>
> There is another problem of an error message when start x11:
>
> Sound Server information Message:
>
> Error while initializing the sound driver, device /dev/dsp can't be
> opened (Permission denied). The sound server will continue, using the
> null output device.
[..]
My first reply :), "vi /etc/group", assuming that you are logging in as
yourself, give your username access to "audio".
Hope this helps :).
>
> How can I fix that problem?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Yuja
>
> Sam Watkins wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:54:37PM +1300, YH wrote:
> >>1. The displayed characters flicks on konsole of X11 screen. My monitor
> >>is a VE710B LCD and my video card is S3 Trio 3D/2X. I could not found
> >>the driver for the Trio 3D/2X video card during installation, so I
> >>selected S3virge driver. I am not sure that caused the problem or not,
> >>how can I resolve this problem? Where can I get S3 Trio 3D/2X driver?
> >
> > According to /usr/share/doc/xserver-xfree86/README.s3virge, this driver
> > supports the Trio3D/2x chip. Possibly you have the refresh rate limits
> > set too high in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
> >
> >>2. The CDROM and Floppy are not defined in mtab, I suspect that the
> >>debian did not detect the hardware during the installation. I can edit
> >>mtab to add floppy and cdrom, but I don't know which device in /dev/
> >>linked to floppy and cdrom. Could you help please.
> >
> > mtab is a dynamic list of what devices / filesystems are actually
> > mounted at a particular time. You don't normally edit it by hand. The
> > table of filesystems is called /etc/fstab. This is the one which should
> > have /floppy and /cdrom or whatever in it.
> >
> > If the floppy or cdrom aren't there, the floppy device is /dev/fd0, and
> > the cdrom device will probably be /dev/hdb, you can add them in:
> >
> > /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
> > /dev/hdb /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0
> >
> > People are mounting their stuff under /media/floppy, /media/cdrom these
> > days, you can do that if you like.
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