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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 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html