On 16-Oct-97 Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 03:04:47PM -0500, Richard A. Guay wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a list of problems that I need help with: > >> 2) I can not get the sound to work! If I execute "cat bong.au >/dev/audio" >> I g >> et "zsh: no such device: /dev/audio" (I did the cat at root level, so it is >> not >> a permissions conflict). How do I check for the drivers for the audio >> board? I >> t is IBM MWave sound card. > > Did you recompiled the kernel, enabling sound support ? (It is not done by > default, the standard kernel is big enough, supporting all possible hard > discs etc). Install the kernel-sources, kernel-package and other packages > mentioned in the README filel from kernel-packages, than follow the > documentation to rebuild the kernel. See the Sound-HOWTO for more details > about your sound card.
Okay, I will look into that. Where is the Sound-HOWTO? Where are all of the ho w to's? Sorry for dumb questions. > >> 3) How do I check the number of bit planes being used by the xserver? I >> seem t >> o still run out of colors with a S3-Virge board with 2 Megs of RAM! How do >> you >> specify the resolution and number of bit planes to come up in with startx? > > Look at the error output, if you use startx. If you use xdm, do: > ># cat /var/log/xdm-errors > [...] > (--) S3: Using Trio32/64 programmable clock (MCLK 59.957 MHz) > (--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 80.000 MHz > (**) S3: Mode "1024x768": mode clock = 75.000 > (**) S3: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 50.000 > (**) S3: Using 16 bpp. Color weight: 565 > (--) S3: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768 > (--) S3: Local bus LAW is 0xFB000000 > (--) S3: Using a banksize of 2048k, line width of 1024 > (--) S3: Using a single 64x64 area at (960,769) for expanding pixmaps > (--) S3: Using 16 planes of 960x255 at (0,769) aligned 8 as font cache > > Notice the 16 planes = 16 bit = 16 bpp > > The resolution is set in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config, the bpp's with > > startx -- -bpp 16 > > IIRC. There are other ways, please look in the mailing archive at > www.debian.org for more of them. (xdm is set in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers: > >:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -bpp 16 > > for example. When I run "startx" the information is removed by the switch to graphics mode to o fast for me to see. What is the easiest way of capturing the output? I can n ot get xdm to work. It launches okay, and sits in memory, but it never puts up a login. Since I can just use startx, I have not looked into why it does not wo rk. > >> 4) Where can I look to find some good background pictures in xpm format? > > What do you like? Search with your favourite web engine (www.yahoo.com for > example). If the pronounciation is on xpm format, then please notice, that > you can convert any format in xpm with many tools (xv, netpbm, ...). > > But are you sure you need xpm format? > > This depends on your window manager and the packages installed... > I think that I have this one under control. I use Fvwm2 and the xpmroot command to set a background. I just compiled ImageMagix on my system that will transla te most formats into xpm. Now for the hunt for a good picture (I like outdoors pictures or space pictures). Richard A. Guay Network Administrator ASIC International Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.asicint.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
