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Re: [LUG] Newcomers to Linux

 

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 23:28:45 +0000
Tony Sumner <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Jan 05, 2007, Mark Jose was like:
> 
> > > I had a floppy drive in my new computer (I know, but it was there) and
> > > it took a while and quite a lot of help from the group to get it
> > > working.
> 
> > I have a floppy drive, but never used it 
> 
> It is surely surprising that Neil should have had trouble with a
> FD. I've installed lots of distros and there had never been any
> problem with the floppy drive and I can't see why there should be. It
> is handy to ba able to boot up from a floppy disc now and then.
> 
Yes, this was surprising. It turned out to be a known fault with
Kubuntu. At installation the last line in /etc/fstab which should read 
/dev/fd0 ........ actually started with /dev/ ........... The fd0 bit
was missing. Once I added that it worked.

> > I would class that [sound] as a generic Linux issue. Happens in all
> > distros at times, depending on soundcard, distro, drivers, time of
> > day....
> 
> I would agree with that in spades. I have Debian testing on a new
> system and to begin with I could play a CD in Kaboodle but not in
> KsCD. After trawling the Linux Forums I found a write-around and KsCD
> now plays but the volume slider won't move. Noone else has this
> problem. Odd. I also have Kubuntu on a tired Pentium III and KsCD
> works but sound comes out of only one speaker (they both work in
> Windows). I had RealPlayer running to get Listen Again from the BBC
> then one day it stopped working ("realplay not in path"). I was trying
> to learn how to use RealPlayer in standalone mode and realplay suddenly
> started working normally again. But for how long ha ha.
> 
> Tony Sumner
> 
I found that everything in Kmix was turned off. I simply turned them on
and everything now works OK. I hadn't realised that some people had so
many problems with sound.

Neil Winchurst


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