Re: [Sheflug] more newbie rubbish

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Peter Smith wrote:

> about with mbr again. Problems, I have no sound my pc has a bog standard sound
> blaster 16 which works fine in windows. Suse will not recognise it.

Lookup 'alsa' in the manual. I can't remember who it works, or how you
invoke it, but it worked a treat for me ;)) BTW, 'sndconfig' is generally
found on Redhat variants (I think), which is why your SuSE wouldn't have
the command. Also, make sure your card is a genuine SB16, not an SB16
clone / compatible /whatever.

> Other problem Adding aplications I have (using) yast added staroffice and wine
> from the disc set starofice is fine setup thingy on the desktop reaby to
> configure. But I cannot find Wine any where. Where is it likely to be & how do
> I activate it, ?????

Wine will be a command available at the command line, by typing 'wine'.
You can find out how to use wine by looking at the docs and the man pages;
but as a warning: it's not trivial.

> Ohh by the way although it is 20:00 hours Sunday night my ckock (bottom left)
> shows 11:00 saturday the 10th Hmmmm

Mmm ;) Not a timezone problem, b'cos you're more that 24 hours out. Is the
date right in Win2000? Is the BIOS correct? Try using date --set to alter
the date to the correct time..

Cheers,

Alex.


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