[Gllug] New user needs help

[Ashley Evans]

Firstly, I must say it's great to have another Linux convert! I'm not 
surprised you've developed a dislike for XP, who wouldn't :)

I'm afraid I can't really help with the printing problem as I'm a debian user 
so I don't use the tools provided with RedHat.

For the sound there are a few things to check:

with mixer to see if the sound levels/mutes etc are ok... sounds obvious but 
you never know :)

That the correct kernel module(driver) is installed. The 'lsmod' command is 
your friend here. To find the correct kernel a google search is usually good, 
something like "<soundcard> linux kernel module" the I've used the SB16 PCI, 
that's the "es1371" module and the soundblaster live which uses the "emu10k1" 
module. If you do need to load a module use "modprobe" and then put
the module name in "/etc/modules" to load it automagically on the next boot.

For CD Audio you may want to check the lead from your CDROM to the soundcard,
although if it was working in XP it's probably fine.

If your sing the GNOME desktop then theres also something called ESD, or 
Enlightenment Sound Daemon that takes care of feeding multiple audio channels 
to the sond card it may be an idea to check its configuration, not sure on 
that one as I'm a KDE user...

Hope this helps

Ash.

On Sunday 19 January 2003 10:29 am, john cundy wrote:
> I have just installed Linux red hat 7.3 for the first time ( I have
> developed a healthy dislike of windows XP).
> It boots with LILO  and is configured to start with GNOME which all
> seems to work fine - except for 2 problems.
>
> I cannot get the printer to install using the printer configeration
> utility. The queue sets up ok and my printer is in the list but I keep
> getting a print error message.
> On booting at the start lpd line the following appears 'localhost IP
> address not available'
> The only alterations I have made were to the following two files to make
> Gnome start on booting up.
> /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain     john-comp (I added the john-comp)
> /etc/sysconfig/network
> NETWORKING=YES
> HOSTNAME=john-comp    (I  changed localhost.localdomain to john-comp)
>
> john-comp appears to be what my computer is named in winXP and I had to
> change the files to get GNOME to start when the machine boots.
>
> The second problem is playing CD's. The sound appears to be configured
> correctly, the soundconfig check worked and I can get 'windows sounds'.
> When I put a CD in to any of the players it is read ok and I get track
> information, but when it plays there is no sound, despite the counter on
> the player confirming the track is playing. I have no idea what to do
> with this as the linux for dummies and linux-complete books don't seem
> to help.
>
> Does anybody know what I am doing wrong?
> Sorry if these seems basic but years of taking the windows options of
> yes or next seem to have dulled the mind a bit.
>
> John


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