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Posted by unicornrose on Fri 10 Feb 2006 at 11:10
I have my IDE Hardrives set to none except the one that I am running my debian Linux on. I know that during the loading phase in Linux it is finding my hard drives. May problem lies in the fact that once I get the desktop up I am unable to browse to my other hard drives. One of the other hard drives is formatted to be a Linux drive and the other drive is formatted as a windows drive because it has all my docs and pictures and music from before the change to Linux about a month or two ago. Anyway what do you recommend I can do to help my desktop or linux actually mount those drives so that I can actually browse to them and get to my documents?
I also am seeking more help with my sound card. I have managed to configure my card so that it is playing sounds that are system wide. However, it won't play midis and mp3s for some reason. I have a Soundblaster AWE64 card. When I look at my control panel on KDE I see that the soundblaster is marked at the 16bit midi device but the mp3s and midis are still not playing. I have ALSA installed on my machine. When giving me suggestions on either of my questions please take into consideration that when it comes to Linux I am very new at this and good instructions with some detail are preferable. If you can suggest some good links that are not like 10 years old that will help too. I am using 2.4.27-2-636 Debian Linux. I am pretty sure its Sarge not Woody unless that is one in the same but I was under the impression it was not...Anyway any suggestions or comments would be appreciated.
I also am seeking more help with my sound card. I have managed to configure my card so that it is playing sounds that are system wide. However, it won't play midis and mp3s for some reason. I have a Soundblaster AWE64 card. When I look at my control panel on KDE I see that the soundblaster is marked at the 16bit midi device but the mp3s and midis are still not playing. I have ALSA installed on my machine. When giving me suggestions on either of my questions please take into consideration that when it comes to Linux I am very new at this and good instructions with some detail are preferable. If you can suggest some good links that are not like 10 years old that will help too. I am using 2.4.27-2-636 Debian Linux. I am pretty sure its Sarge not Woody unless that is one in the same but I was under the impression it was not...Anyway any suggestions or comments would be appreciated.
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Posted by unicornrose on Sun 5 Feb 2006 at 14:25
Let me tell you the switch from a windows based system to a Linux system has been quite the adventure and education. What's even more interesting is the huge differance between Debian and well all the other differant types of Linux systems. Its completely amazing to me.
Anyway I have been experimenting and learning lots of lessons. The biggest one was not to uninstall the kernel well because then the computer will not work. LOL
My biggest issue as of this moment is no freaking sound. I am at a complete loss as to what to do. I am runnig a normal Debian system NOT a Debian woody system. I am running the 2.4.27-2-686 kernel and even tried to compile the kernel to get my sound card to work.
I tried isapnptools among other suggested things that I found online to try to get my sound card working. Nothing has worked so far. EEEEPPP What shall I do? Anyone got any suggestions?
Anyway I have been experimenting and learning lots of lessons. The biggest one was not to uninstall the kernel well because then the computer will not work. LOL
My biggest issue as of this moment is no freaking sound. I am at a complete loss as to what to do. I am runnig a normal Debian system NOT a Debian woody system. I am running the 2.4.27-2-686 kernel and even tried to compile the kernel to get my sound card to work.
I tried isapnptools among other suggested things that I found online to try to get my sound card working. Nothing has worked so far. EEEEPPP What shall I do? Anyone got any suggestions?