[GLLUG] Re: one more thing...

[Jolyon Michael Vincent]

Matt Graham writes: 

> On Saturday 03 January 2004 15:27, the dread hand of Mark Tarquini 
> scribed in ashen ink:
>> sound, where does one configure sound on debian?  redhat seemed to
>> just find my card without problem, or sndconfig i think was the
>> command i used once...
> 
> One finds out what sound card one has by using "lspci -vv", then one 
> modprobes the appropriate sound module(s).  Debian disdains 
> "user-friendly" tools like sndconfig for the most part.  Hope your 
> soundcard isn't on the ISA bus, since that makes things trickier.  
> Report the results of "lspci -vv | grep -A6 audio" to the mailing list, 
> and someone can tell you exactly what to modprobe. 
> 
> Regarding your X problems:  A general X troubleshooting tip that has 
> worked well for me in the past is to look at /var/log/XFree*.log , go 
> to the first line in that file that matches (EE) , then look at the 10 
> or 20 lines before that first EE line.  That's all I did with your 
> problem!  HTH, 
> 
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...Think these tips'd work on RH 7.2 as well? 

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