Hi All --

These are probably very newbish questions, but I'm sure you'll all take pity on me and help me out

Question #1 - How do i get rid of that awful RedHat8 Gnome theme. I want to switch it to the 'default' Gnome2 theme. I'm able to switch different window borders and GTK themes but that start menu just has to go. I have the feeling that I need to do a fresh install of Gnome2, am i right? Also, did they lose the menu config tool in the new release?

Question #2 - RH auto detected my sound card and got it correct (unlike Win2K) but it says that the sound module is disabled. Do I have to recompile the kernel to enable it or is there an easy way that I'm missing. I did check that the sound server is enabled at start up.

A point in the right direction with either of these issues would be helpful and appreciated.

Thanks!

~ g0dzuki

I had the same thing happening with my soundcard. The card was detected correctly but the module was disabled. I had to modprobe the module for the sound card and then run sndconfig and all was well after that.

Answer 1: you need to create a new GNOME panel, move the icons from the old one to the new one and then delete the old panel. Be sure to Save Current Setup before you logou.

Answer 2: Go to your machines BIOS and disable the Plug-n-Play OS option . Then boot into linux. kudzu should reconfigure your sound card.


And try using sawfish instead of metacity:

killall metacity & sawfish

(yup, save current setup before logout ).

#2) Quick note, when I asked the same question I was told I had to set PnP OS to 'no' in my BIOS as well....unfortunately that wasn't a setting that I could change in my BIOS......but my sound works wonderfully so don't think that is the ONLY way.....

Disabled PnP and I havce sound, WooHoo! (Thanks)

But i'm not following you on creating the new Gnome Panel.... can you elaborate.

Again, thanks for your help!

~ g0dzuki

u can rightclick on your existing panel and click on 'New Panel'. This way, you can make it a floating panel. The default panel is not customizable unless u create new one.

maybe i was thinking of another thing here. but in my experience, version 8 is very hard to customize (just for the panel alone.).