Re: [LUG] Help the aged

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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:-

My personal setup;
Word processor = Abiword
Internet and email = Mozilla
Scanning = Xsane
Image Editing = Gimp

| 1) When system opens up it does so with number lock active.  How can I
| alter this.?

Bios settings usually

| 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.

I am not overly familiar with Mandrake but i know with several distros
there is a soundconfig application or similar. Also you will need to
ensure that the sound drivers are compiled as either modules or in the
kernel (personally i have modules)

| When CD Player comes on it has note 'no matching freedb entry found'

OK this one I can probably deal with, freedb holds a database of CD
audio information that can be queried or submitted if there is no entry
for it. This database holds the Album/Single name, artist and the names
of the tracks. This message implies that there is no entry for the CD
you are trying to play.

| 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.


HTH

Neil Stone
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