Hi. I'm starting to move over to Linux from windows so I can escape from the dreaded Vista Demon. I have two boxes- one PC I use XP on, soon to be Ubuntu, and an ancient Compaq Armada 1598dt which used to run win98se.
Dsl works beautifully on the laptop except for some largeish points. I cannot get sound to work at all, nor the wireless card I have. Two smaller queries: I use a custom keyboard layout, Its part swiss french, part british; is it possible to make a keyboard file Linux would understand for this? Secondly, how does one install OpenOffice onto DSL, as I find Beaver/Ted insufficient for what I use the Laptop for.
There are the problems, here are the details: The soundcard is a soundblaster 16b compatible card, and it used to run some driver with ESS in the name on windows. The wireless card is the Linksys WPC11 v4 wlan card on a realtech chipset.
I have tried several of the other solutions to such problems I found on this forum, but to no avail. I mostly got "Incorrect driver!" errors. The wlan card does put its lights on though, and I can see the dmix bar at the bottom of the screen and play with the volume control. When I turn up the sound with the built in volume control buttons, i can hear feedback from the internal mike. Both sound and the wlan card worked faultlessly on win98se, and it would be a shame to move back just to use them!
Laptop specs: 64mb ram, pentium MMX 266mhz processor, 4gb HDD from which I'm running DSL - I did the harddrive install.
I hope you can help me! I'm very new to Linux, so could you explain any steps you give me because I don't know what most commands do yet!
Tried most of that. Once I've done the "modprobe sb esstype=0" command, XMMS gives no error message, it appears to be playing, and If I turn the volume up I can hear the microphone if I tap it. However I still get no music! Grrr!
EDIT: When this happened, lsmod print out is this: sound 55244 1 [sb_lib uart401 opl3] soundcore 3428 4 (autoclean) [sb_lib sound]
EDIT: Am troubleshooting wlan card, but I think I need to change some boot commands. I use Lilo, not grub. How do I allow dma? I can't edit lilo.conf as it is write protected...
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I use Lilo, not grub. How do I allow dma? I can't edit lilo.conf as it is write protected...
add " dma" to APPEND or use the command: "hdparm -d1 <device>". Copy a regular lilo.conf over to somewhere you can write it - make sure you are root when you edit it.Next Page...
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