General Linux Chat and Small Questions - Hardware & Software

Finally switched to a fully 64-bit system, ditching flash on the way. Since I'm not using Flash, I might go ahead and make it a completely free system.

Where is Rhythmbox's config files? Can't find them. :frown:

I'm trying to get my internal wireless card in my laptop working in Mint 9 using Ndiswrapper. It says it needs both a .inf and a .sys file to work, but I only have a .sys file. Will it work without the .inf?

I've discovered that it's a bitch to get the onboard sound working on my new motherboard, at least with Alsa. I might try OSS if this doesn't work.

[QUOTE=a-k-t-w;23226406]Where is Rhythmbox's config files? Can't find them. :frown:[/QUOTE] Settings are stored in gconf under /apps/rhythmbox and the database is stored in ~/.local/share/rhythmbox [QUOTE=MasterF3n;23229398]I'm trying to get my internal wireless card in my laptop working in Mint 9 using Ndiswrapper. It says it needs both a .inf and a .sys file to work, but I only have a .sys file. Will it work without the .inf?[/QUOTE] I believe it needs both, however if you download a fresh copy of the driver it should come with both.

Got fed up with alsa, oss worked out of the box. Why isn't it default in every distribution? It's open source again, there shouldn't be any problem.

[QUOTE=IpHa;23247467]I believe it needs both, however if you download a fresh copy of the driver it should come with both.[/QUOTE] Problem is the company that made my card is completely gone.

[QUOTE=IpHa;23247467]Settings are stored in gconf under /apps/rhythmbox and the database is stored in ~/.local/share/rhythmbox[/QUOTE] Rhythmbox hangs at start up, I thought clearing the database would fix it. :sigh: Perhaps not.

[QUOTE=a-k-t-w;23253076]Rhythmbox hangs at start up, I thought clearing the database would fix it. :sigh: Perhaps not.[/QUOTE] Try going through the config and disabling some/all of the plugins. [QUOTE=MasterF3n;23252748]Problem is the company that made my card is completely gone.[/QUOTE] What's the company/model number? Maybe I can find something.

can't get firefox make any noise using OSS. what do

Do you have alsamixer or just OSS? Do you have the alsamixer OSS compatibility package?

[QUOTE=IpHa;23255715]Try going through the config and disabling some/all of the plugins.[/QUOTE] Yay, This did the trick.

[QUOTE=IpHa;23255715]What's the company/model number? Maybe I can find something.[/QUOTE] The company was Agere Systems and it appears as "IEEE 802.11b Wireless MiniPCI Card 7007" in Device Manager. My laptop is a Packard Bell Easynote G1 if that helps.

[QUOTE=MasterF3n;23275281]The company was Agere Systems and it appears as "IEEE 802.11b Wireless MiniPCI Card 7007" in Device Manager. My laptop is a Packard Bell Easynote G1 if that helps.[/QUOTE] Damn, that thing is hard to track down. Can you give me the output of "lspci -n"?

I have a very old PC running windows 98, I was wondering if there was a distro which uses less than 120 mb ram, and is small [editline]03:59PM[/editline] a good distro

Gave you an answer in that thread of yours.

[QUOTE=nos217;23272230]Do you have alsamixer or just OSS? Do you have the alsamixer OSS compatibility package?[/QUOTE] I guess just OSS

[QUOTE=IpHa;23277985]Damn, that thing is hard to track down. Can you give me the output of "lspci -n"?[/QUOTE] I'm sorry, what?

I put SliTax on a USB drive. It's really small and really useful. I'm the computer repair guy, when anyone has a problem I have to fix it. Linux on a USB drive could just be very useful depending on the problem.

I do something similar with ubuntu on my flash drive. I keep my drive and my keys on the same ribbon so I always have them. It is quite useful.

[QUOTE=MasterF3n;23298260]I'm sorry, what?[/QUOTE] Open a terminal, run "lspci -n", and post the output here.

[QUOTE=IpHa;23303842]Open a terminal, run "lspci -n", and post the output here.[/QUOTE] Here you are! 00:00.0 0600: 1002:5830 (rev 02) 00:01.0 0604: 1002:5838 00:13.0 0c03: 1002:4347 (rev 01) 00:13.1 0c03: 1002:4348 (rev 01) 00:14.0 0c05: 1002:4353 (rev 18) 00:14.1 0101: 1002:4349 00:14.3 0601: 1002:434c 00:14.4 0604: 1002:4342 00:14.5 0401: 1002:4341 00:14.6 0703: 1002:434d (rev 01) 01:05.0 0300: 1002:5835 02:04.0 0280: 11c1:ab34 02:0b.0 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10) And here's what I get from just "lspci"... 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS300 Host Bridge (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100 IGP AGP Bridge 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SMBus (rev 18) 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Dual Channel Bus Master PCI IDE Controller 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Device 434c 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP200 3COM 3C920B Ethernet Controller 00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio Controller 00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc IXP AC'97 Modem (rev 01) 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS300M AGP [Radeon Mobility 9100IGP] 02:04.0 Network controller: Agere Systems Device ab34 02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;23289506]I guess just OSS[/QUOTE] Try installing ALSA and the ALSA-OSS wrapper. Try reading [url=http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide#Step_1:_Configure_sound_with_alsamixer]this[/url].

[QUOTE=nos217;23308733]Try installing ALSA and the ALSA-OSS wrapper. Try reading [url=http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide#Step_1:_Configure_sound_with_alsamixer]this[/url].[/QUOTE] Did everything in the guide. [code]boot@boot ~ % aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:4154:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:4154:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:4154:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:4633:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default aplay: main:654: audio open error: No such file or directory boot@boot ~ % alsamixer cannot open mixer: No such file or directory [/code] didn't work the first time I tried either

What soundcard are you using?

[code]boot@boot ~ % lspci | grep -i audio 00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2) boot@boot ~ % aplay -l aplay: device_list:235: no soundcards found... [/code] for everyone else having the problem, it seems to be a group issue, but I'm in the right groups. Root can't find any soundcards either with aplay -l

switched back to OSS and got my issue with flash and no audio fixed. I installed firefox-hg-oss from AUR and spent 40 minutes compiling it. and then removed the regular firefox package. apparently the firefox packaged in arch doesn't support OSS natively.

I'm a complete Linux n00b and i've recently installed Ubuntu on my computer, now i dual boot it alongside Vista. Now i would like to configure the GRUB bootloader, but i don't know how to do it. The problem is that it adds new entry to the boot menu after updates to the OS, and i'd like to remove the old versions from the list. I also want to change the name of an entry (It's named Win7 because i had the beta installed, i'd like to rename it to Vista), and change the order of the entries so that Vista is selected by default.

You can change all of this by modifying the following file /boot/grub/menu.lst Be very careful, you don't want to delete or change something that would prevent ubuntu or windows from booting. To modify the file simply run: [code] sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst [/code] You should be able to delete the previous entries without much problems. In case something goes wrong. Before editing the file you should back it up. If it fails you can go back. To backup the file just run the following command: [code] sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst.old [/code] Good luck.

[QUOTE=Boris-B;23339188]You can change all of this by modifying the following file /boot/grub/menu.lst Be very careful, you don't want to delete or change something that would prevent ubuntu or windows from booting. To modify the file simply run: [code] sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst [/code] You should be able to delete the previous entries without much problems. In case something goes wrong. Before editing the file you should back it up. If it fails you can go back. To backup the file just run the following command: [code] sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst.old [/code] Good luck.[/QUOTE] I suppose i put those commands into terminal? Also why can't i just access the file through the file browser?