[Sheflug] Re: more newbie rubbish

[Richard <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Peter

Peter Smith wrote:

 Problems, I have no sound my pc has a bog standard sound
> blaster 16 which works fine in windows. Suse will not recognise it. I have
> tried from inside Yast 2 sound setup but get a message saying the kernel was
> not altered, I have tried from within a terminal window entering "sndconfig" 

try "alsaconfig" or look for the OSS stuff under pay1 or pay2 on the
CDs.  Setup is easy and both of these should detect anything.

> 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, ?????

http://www.winehq.com

You need to look at /etc/wine.conf.  Don't ask me how to change that
I've forgotten.

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

hwclock --show
hwclock --debug
hwclock --set --date 20:00:00   or whatever the time is
hwclock --hctosys    set system clock in time with hardware clock 
hwclock --systohc    set hardware clock in time with system time

Thanks

-- 
Richard
Sheffield UK

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