Anyone know how to get sound working so that I can play CD's? I can hear the 3-chord play on test, but no sound emanates. RH9 and WS 3

Save some CPU cycles and plug in the cable from the CDRom and the sound card. I had to do that when I upgraded to 2.6. Some apps don't know how to do it with digital. Ah well, I can play cds now without sucking my CPU out of commission (<---perhaps an exaggeration)

ive had similiar probs on one machine, but that cdrom gets stuck often too, i dont think the drivers for it are perfect, as a solution ive started to plug my woofer cord into the front of the CDrom and letting it play in walkman mode

re, paulis predicament:

im starting to understand, although this sitch is a little different
i reassembled this pIII smp that had been deemed beyond use by the last tech here, and the darn thing actually booted (the ram chips were loose).. its just that the on board controller doesnt work at all, so ive got this working computer with no operating system and theres nothing i can do about it .. well.. so the computer doesnt really work.. it just almost acts like it.
maybe its karma for the mac comment i made, to have gotten this far and yet no where at all

i wonder what would happen if i daisy chained the pci controller that *does* detect stuff into the on-board controller that doesnt ..

Blah blah blah...once again you show your ignorance ( and bring into question your ability to read) - this is on the front page of the Slackware site : http://www.slackware.com/torrents/index.html

As far as I can see it is a totally free download...

As for your Windows problems...you are getting a bit tedious. Can I suggest a "final solution" - call MS support, you are entitled to it when you purchase XP. Some idio...sorry expert will help you.

If you haven't purchased XP then why are you trying to install it anyway?

Nono. I don't care about downloading, that doesn't give good support. Look at the prices when you go to buy it. I am downloading it, but i don't get manuals and stuff with it, and manuals are not worth 40 dollars which is what Slack charges to send the cds to you.

Besides the fact that those are torrents, I hate bit torrent because I only have 56k at home and at school the firewall kills everything. At MAX i get about 0.1 kb/s downloading off of bittorrent.

And no, I didn't 'purchase' win xp, I have a copy from a corporation with the corporate number which allows it to be on unlimited number of computers. Trust me, I doubt they would appreciate my calling the support. And it is not windows problems now, it is partition magic problems.

I know nothing about partition magic except horror stories told third hand. I can't help you. You'd be wise to not blatantly admit you're a pirate. Search engines crawl over this site all the time, as its chock full of information and help. If someone who works for Microsoft caught this thread out of interest and decided to press on, you'd be in legal trouble. Please don't brag about stealing here.

I've tried to sit back and let this sour turn go away, but you seem to want to keep it up. Please try to keep your posts to questions, as I am embarassed that I post in the same thread as you do now.

Heh. You people amuse me. The ones that insult me for pirating things, wow. What do you do? Support profiteering monopolistic corporations which force consumers to pay because there is not easy alternative? Maybe you are the ones sponsoring greed, not me. I am pirating things, not to save money, but in a protest against an imperialistic society attempting to inpose its will on money, consumption and greed on me. Do not deem to judge me a 'pirate' when I refuse to go with the masses of people giving away money to corporations which do not deserve it.

what a load.
ever tried to write system software?
obviously not
if the developers who worked on it want money, i think they have earned it
you do realize this is a linux forum dont you?
the part of your post where you accuse everyone of "sponsoring greed" is just ludicrous

Cool. So then, you protest against something that you have not paid for (Windows) and steal it and trashes the free alternatives around (Linux).... really cool If I was a mod, I'd close this thread now, since it's not going anywhere, nor you deserve help... stealing from one, trashing another one...

Linux is great for servers! I've ran my server for almost a month straight, and I didn't have any problems yet. I ran win2k for about a month strait, and programs would load, it would keep on freezing, etc. It's has emacs, witch is very good for programming. If I program freezes, the whole computer it'self won't hang up, when sometimes in w2k the whole computer hands up and you have 2 push the restart button. But unless you have wine or winex, windows is good for games, and that's about it.

told ya he can't read...

No, we do not support MS. That is why we choose to use Linux. That is EXACTLY why some of us choose to support projects like Slackware by buying the boxed set for $40 (which is really not that much considering what you get).

You have a very juvenile way of thinking if what you wrote above makes any sense to you. Protesting against something DOES NOT warrant breaking the law.

Anyhow I really hope you automagically disappear off our forums and not pollute them with this kind of posting. I for one will not engage in any further discourse with you.

consider this behavior:

You are shopping in a store, and found something you think it's cool to have. At the same time, you realized you don't have enough money. Without much understanding of the business logic behind such product. You decided to -steal- it because you believe the following statment ---"I don't think this product should worth that much, yet I want it, therefore I steal".

Does it sounds familiar?
that action was not consider as "protest", rather it was an act of "crime" or "illegal act"

The "freedom" of Open Source is not for crimial's hide out. Please respect Open Source.

I would recomend WIndows over Linux any-day. I would recomend Windows first because it is so user friendly, which is what most people prefer.

An OS is an OS....it just depends on what you prefer.

Unstable but userfriendly (Windows) or stable and not as user friendly (Linux)