Re: [LUG] Help the aged

[jon davey <jondavey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 27 Dec 2002 7:50 pm, philip ireland wrote:
> HI All, 
> Silver Surfer - started with Sanyo Laptop (to replace portable typewriter) 
abt 4 yrs ago. Had 20mhzcpu 640k mem ran Windows 3.1 with MSWord v.2 and some 
games. Was a gift from son together with Jp50 b/w printer.  Moved on to Escom 
Pentium running Win 95 with Compaq 171FSmonitor, jetway ext.v56 modem, still 
using Jp50 printer. Now have (do not ask how sourced) 
> Compaq Pro Workstation 5100 which came with NT 4 installed which I succeeded 
in trashing. Son then advised me to try Linux as reinstall NT4 was long 
arduous job with lots of problems. Sent me RedHat 7.2 cds. which I installed 
(not too successfully)  so after reading review opted for Mandrake v9.  This 
after some false starts now working quite satisfactorily. For me anyway , I 
only need word processor plus emails, browsing net, +photocopying + edit   
Have two niggles:- 
>  
> 1) When system opens up it does so with number lock active.  How can I alter 
this.? 
You can do that easily from your BIOS--go into it as you normaly would delete 
on boot or F1 for some compaq machines and just de-select numlock on 
boot.....I can't help with the sound problem I'm afraid.
J-D
> 2) Although installation process identified sound card correctly as ES1868 
PnP Audio drive 
>     I get following error messages when trying to run CD Player. 
> device/dev/dsp can't be opened (no such file in directory) Sound Server will 
continue using null output device.  When CD Player comes on it has note 'no 
matching freedb entry found' 
> Some pointers in the right direction to overcome these two items will be 
appreciated. Have searched around without success. Found one poor soul with 
same problem with sound but he does not appear to have had an answer from 
anyone. 
>  
> Compaq 5100 Mandrake 9 Kernel2.4 19-16mdksmp using KDE 3.0.3. 
> Pentium II 300Mhz  x 2 
> Compaq WDE 4360W(52122c) 4GB 
> Hitachi CDR -8235
>
> Thanks in adv. yr cooperation Phil101a
>
>
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