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Redhat 8.0 Problems
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| If someone would be kind enough to help me with the following problems when using Redhat 8.0, I would appreciate it.
1) No sound. I have a Soundblaster Live 256 and it does detect it but I cant hear no sound.
2) The Scrool Wheel on the mouse does not work.
3) Is there some sort of "Minimize All" button in RH8 like there is on Windows? It gets really annoying when you need to manually minimize all the windows just to get to the desktop 
4) Is there anyway to make RH8 not detect my Ethernet when booting? It takes one whole minute on just detecting the ethernet and then it comes up as "Failed"
5) How do I mount my WindowsXP C: and D:?
Everything else seems to be great! Is there anything else "cool" that I can install? I am thinking of installing the new Fluxbox (www.fluxbox.org).
Thanks. | |
| Boulware5 2003-06-06, 8:47 pm |
| 1. Are you sure it's detecting it? Can you lsmod and see the module loaded? Also RedHat has a built in sound card GUI detecting tool - have you used that?
2. Try mouseconfig and see if your mouse is supported.
3. Nothing comes to mind, sorry.
4. Why not figure out why it's not detcting it instead of removing it? Have you checked redhat.com to make sure it supports it? RedHat 9.0 is out, you may want to upgrade that (it's a safe upgrade from 8 to 9) and with each new RH release comes more hardware support. Now if you do want it to skip the detection, while it's starting up hit "I" for interactive logon. This will ask you if you want to do each step in the boot up process.
5. Is it NTFS? Linux reads FAT32 great but NTFS takes some work and it's only read-only right now. If it's FAT32, you will have to edit your /etc/fstab file to something like this:
/dev/hda1 /windows vfat noauto,defaults 0 0
This is IF your FAT32 win partition is the first partition on your first IDE drive. If it's, say, the 3rd partition on your 2nd IDE drive, it would be /dev/hdb3. Also you need to create the /windows directory to mount it. Just do mkdir -m 700 /windows ... The -m I just made it read, write, execute for the user...Change that as you please. Then it should be mounted automatically at boot. You can change to it with mount /windows .
Now if it's NTFS, that becomes tricky. Take a look at This
You will either have to install a RPM or rebuild your kernel to support NTFS. RedHat doesn't include NTFS support by default. | |
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| Thanks for the reply, I'll give it a shot. Also, I was browsing the fluxbox.org website and saw one of the screenshots ( http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/zoom...er-o_influx.jpg ) and love that "applet" in the bottom left hand corner. Does anyone know how I can get this on my system.
Thanks. | |
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| I found out the cool plugin, it was GKrellm.
Anyways, here is where I am thus far...
1) Still having troubles, it detects the Sound Card but I cant hear any noise. When I open up a mp3 in Winamp it doesn't play back.
2) Scroll Wheel doesn't work
3) No Problem, Fluxbox is taking care of that
4) Done.
5) Still having problems... I have one 60 gig HDD and it has 4 Partitions...
C: FAT32 = Windows XP
D: FAT32 = Data (I need to mount this drive only)
E: NTFS = Backup
I: Linux = Redhat
Thanks. | |
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| LSMOD Output:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
ppp_synctty 7936 0 (unused)
ppp_async 9440 1
ppp_generic 24380 3 [ppp_synctty ppp_async]
slhc 6740 0 [ppp_generic]
sr_mod 18136 0 (autoclean)
cmpci 35944 0 (autoclean)
soundcore 6500 4 (autoclean) [cmpci]
radeon 94008 5
agpgart 42912 3
parport_pc 19108 1 (autoclean)
lp 8996 0 (autoclean)
parport 37152 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 13348 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ipt_REJECT 3736 6 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2412 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 14840 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
ide-scsi 10512 0
scsi_mod 107176 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 33608 0
cdrom 33696 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
mousedev 5524 1
keybdev 2976 0 (unused)
hid 22244 0 (unused)
input 5888 0 [mousedev keybdev hid]
usb-uhci 26188 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 17448 0 (unused)
usbcore 77056 1 [hid usb-uhci ehci-hcd]
ne2k-pci 7264 1
8390 8188 0 [ne2k-pci]
ext3 70400 1
jbd 52212 1 [ext3] | |
| Boulware5 2003-06-07, 2:58 pm |
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5) Still having problems... I have one 60 gig HDD and it has 4 Partitions...
What kind of problems? I told you how to do it for FAT32 partitions. | |
| ghaouf 2003-06-07, 3:38 pm |
| for 3 you could just click on another desktop then all will be minimized on that desktop | |
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| kde right click button, add, special buttons, desktop access. work exactly like show desktop.
in gnome, panel, add, utilities, show desktop. same thing. | |
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| Boulware5,
Well, I want to mount my D: and it is coming up with this error message:
"mount:wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many mounted systems (arn't you trying to mount an extended partition, instead of some logical partition inside?)"
I made two directories in /mnt, "windows" and "windowsd". "windows" works perfectly when I type in "/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat noauto,defaults 0 0" For the D: I typed in: "/dev/hda2 /mnt/windowsd vfat noauto,defaults 0 0"
ghaouf, but its not the same as Minimize All.
mikop, I dont see the "show desktop" button in Gnome... | |
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| Ok most of the problems are gone except the sound problem. It just doesn't play anything, but it detects my card.
Any ideas? | |
| Boulware5 2003-06-08, 11:38 pm |
| problem with your speakers maybe? | |
| Winstoncpr 2003-06-09, 1:27 pm |
| Redhat stripped the MP3 codecs out of the player due to RIAA pressure. Just down load the codecs and install them, and your of to mp3 land. | |
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| Boulware5 - Speakers work fine in WinXP
Winstoncpr - I'll give that a shot, thanks. | |
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| Ok I downloaded a OGG file and it can now play in XMMS, but there is no sound heh. Any ideas? Volume is turned all the way up... | |
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| I tried the CD-Player and it works perfectly, sound and all.
Still cant get XMMS to work though. | |
| Winstoncpr 2003-06-09, 2:44 pm |
| download the XMMS rpm for mp3's
http://www.xmms.org/download.html
OGG is a different audio codec, not for MP3's
Redhat stripped out mp3 codecs from their products to prevent legal liability should RIAA decide that mp3's are "illegal". No mp3 capability, no liability on redhat's part. | |
| Winstoncpr 2003-06-09, 2:45 pm |
| Sorry drop the last directory from my previous post
http://www.xmms.org | |
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| I downloaded the MP3 codec and it does the same thing as OGG files, it plays but there is no sound from my speakers. | |
| fatchronos 2003-06-09, 6:16 pm |
| Dude,
I have a soundblaster audigy (a derivative of the Live!) and to get it working i had to actually downlaod the driver from creative - for some reason the kernel driver detects the card but does not actually work.
This worked fine for me, though i think this might not be your problems as you say the computer thinks its playing but its not... when i had my problem i would get an error trying to play music. Still, its worth a shot.
BTW you should really recompile your kernel with just the options you need, such as network cards etc. will make your boot time quicker, you will have less problems etc | |
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| I really dont think its the drivers, cause it does play audio cd's perfectly.
I fixed the bootup problems, it runs much faster now.
Thanks. | |
| fatchronos 2003-06-10, 12:18 am |
| audio cd's will almost always play properly, regardless of driver problems, because the cdrom normally feeds the audio direct to the sound card rather than through the OS | |
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| I downloaded the Audio driver but have no idea how to install it. I untarred it and then typed in "./configure" and it comes up with errors. Any ideas? | |
| fatchronos 2003-06-10, 9:18 pm |
| did you try reading the instructions? |
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