Problems with SAMS Debian 2.1 and Dell Inspiron 7500 - The Solution

Okay the solution is to download the latest set of install files that have the tecra images available :). It's a long download on a modem but less than the time I've spent on this version of the distribution. Thanks to all who helped.

Re: More Problems with SAMS Debian 2.1 and Dell Inspiron 7500

Unfortunately not _all_ of the publishing houses provide complete and quality controlled disks. If you didn't get an Official debian cd, you might want to consider doing so before moving on. I am pretty happy with this $1.98 set from linuxmall: http://www.linuxmall.com/shop/00989?cat=ROOT&sort=2&vi

More Problems with SAMS Debian 2.1 and Dell Inspiron 7500

Hi Next problem (ho hum) with: SAMS Installing GNU/Linux book with the copy of Debian 2.1 Dell Inspiron PIII 650, 128mb ram, 18gb or so hard drive, dvd rom (cd compatible), LS120 Okay managed to install rescue and driver image by using the install from dos/harddrive and the tecra images. Now get

Re: Silencing CARDMGR Beep

On 27-May-2000 David Reviejo wrote: > * David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000527 13:18]: >> When I boot my system, cardmgr (I think) issues a loud beep. Any ideas >> on how I can silence this? > > I don't like this (you can get information from this beep), but try > putting > CARDMGR_OPTS="-

RE: Silencing CARDMGR Beep

On 26-May-2000 David Corbin wrote: > When I boot my system, cardmgr (I think) issues a loud beep. Any ideas > on how I can silence this? > It uses the system speaker on most laptops, so simply turn down your speaker volume. This will also quiet the booting music many laptops make.

Re: OPL3-SA2 on a Toshiba 490xcdt laptop

On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:25:17AM -0400, Richard Black wrote: > Hi all > > has anyone had any joy getting sound from a Toshiba 490xcdt laptop? I > am running potato with > > kernel 2.214 > alsa 0.4.1 > I don't know about anything about alsa, but I've got $lsmod opl3 10952

Re: [alsa-user] OPL3-SA2 on a Toshiba 490xcdt laptop

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Richard Black wrote: > Hi all > > has anyone had any joy getting sound from a Toshiba 490xcdt laptop? I > am running potato with > > kernel 2.214 > alsa 0.4.1 > > Everything _looks_ okay, but when I try to start alsa, I get > > # /sbin/modprobe snd-card-opl3sa2 > /lib/mod

OPL3-SA2 on a Toshiba 490xcdt laptop

Hi all has anyone had any joy getting sound from a Toshiba 490xcdt laptop? I am running potato with kernel 2.214 alsa 0.4.1 Everything _looks_ okay, but when I try to start alsa, I get # /sbin/modprobe snd-card-opl3sa2 /lib/modules/2.2.14/sound/snd-card-opl3sa2.o: init_module: Device or resour

Re: Debian GNU/linux on Toshiba laptops

Martin: I don't know about that model, but I have a tecra8000. It's Ok; i've had to deal with the "tecra bug", meaning bzImages don't boot. That's been a bit of a pain, making installation less-than-straight forward (you won't be able to boot off a *debian* cdrom--althought SuSE, for example, works

Re: HD spindown and fs cache writeback

Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you using the minus "-" sign on your filenames in syslog.conf? Yes, on all but the mail log (which only gets hit when I send mail out).