i've installed mandrake 9.2 on my acer 1400xv.
so i'm completely newbie here....
i got some question plz help.....



my modem n my soundcard not work with my mandrake 9.2 even my soundcard make an error msg like cannot start n make my laptop freeze...
can somebody help me? how to fix it. i've downloaded driver from smlink.com for the modem hope it can fix my modem problem, but the soundcard can somebody help or show me the link how can i solve the problem??

and i'ce downloaded antivirus for linux worklstation, from f-prot antivirus (.rpm package) n i installed using rpm install maneger (from MCC) how to run n create short cut ( i'm not using procedur extract and make install coz it in .rpm package)

and any opinion what is the best antivirus for linux?

thanks all for the solutions

For your sound problems, install ALSA
alsa-project.org

Read the documentation there, there should be a guide specific to your hardware.

As for anti-virus... AFAIK, "virus" and "linux" are rarely used in the same sentence. There's just not much a virus can DO on a system with appropriate permissions set.
I might be wrong though.

--Rounan

Noyz, I had the same problem, thinking that I had no noise. And the noise was there, but the sound volume was lowered down to zero. Just have a look at all the things in the "audio tools" toolbar, and fine the one with volule controls for all the audio channels. On my system, the "master volume" was to zero.

about alsa which one should i download ?? driver ? library or firmware?
i got some not from the web site how to fix the sound n modem problem in acer 1400xv.

here are the quote.
"Build and install (insmod) the modules (in this order if modprobe has problems): ac97_codec soundcore sound i810_audio .
Adding "i810_audio" to/etc/modules seems to do the trick.

cd /dev; MAKEDEV all
chmod 660 /dev/audio /dev/dsp

adduser *name_of_normal_user* audio "

can someone explained it? and in my mandrake9.2 there isn't directory audio n for information the person i quote is using debian linux.

and about the modem problem, i've downloaded the driver from smlink.com.
but i cant compile the file, i just exctract it but when i use
./configure comend it says " bash: ./configure: no such file or directory"

and in the redme file from the modem driver says i should modified line "KERNEL_INCLUDE:/usr/include" to something like "KERNEL_INCLUDE:/urs/src/linuxkernel/linux" the problem is in my mandrake (fresh install from downloaded version) theis no kernel file just in the /boot there is a file called linux2.24.22_10mdk, should i downloaded the kernel file first?

helpppppp

ALSA - Find your card in the soundcard matrix. there should be a detailed guide there. Basically, you're going to need to get and install driver, library, utils, tools, OSS in that order.

The guide you posted says what to do if installing ALSA doesn't work. But installing ALSA is going to work.
There isn't an audio directory because: you haven't installed ALSA and/or you're running Mandrake, not debian. I'm on debian, so I don't know which for sure.

A guide to compiling programs from source:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ticle&artid=15
I suspect you either haven't untarred the file properly, or you haven't switched into the proper directory.
You may need to download the kernel header files for your kernel version. This is so the driver knows the details of what to do on your particular system. I don't know exactly how to do that in Mandrake, but you're looking to download and install an RPM file that looks something like:

kernel-headers-2.24.22_10mdk.rpm

Look on Mandrake's site, and failing that google it.


--Rounan

my master volume not set to zero (in midlle position) but still no sound

i have the full kernel file in the downloaded cd...
so now i should copy it to /usr/src/linux2.24.22/ directory ???
sorry be patient bro newbie here

n about the compiling file i do excatly what the articel said, n still happened that way

about alsa project, my sound card is crystall WDM audio codec (cyrus logic core) no cristall wdm in alsa so i think i gonna try to cirrus one ( but where i can see the type?)

Unless you're planning to compile from source, there's no reason to install the whole kernel source.
What you need is the kernel-header RPM for your version of the Mandrake kernel. Which you need to install. With rpm -i <kernel-header-package>, where <kernel-header-package> is whatever the exact filename is, once you find it.

I find it strange that your exact card isn't in the matrix...
do:
lspci

And look for something soundcard-esque. This will tell you what your chipset is being identified as.

--Rounan

And for my audio card, from my Mandrake distribution, I didn't have to download the kernel files, nor to compile alsa. it worked directly, installing alsa with the window-driven menus.
Sorry to see how difficult it appears for you, but, you know, sometimes it's not easy helping people from remote, that's why sometimes we seem to need time before answering.

The sound problem finally fix although lspcidrake pint my sound card is intel ICHT2 ut it not work with it, some time frezee my laptop. (sound server error). So i change to i 810 (with alsa, in my mandrake download cd) n it work. But with no internal midi processor, is all the soundcard like that ?? sorry if my question is silly ( iwant internal midi processor )

N for the modem haven fix yet, but i try to download the kernel, because the modem driver tell me to include the kernel header to makefile source, which i don't have one already. In my mandrake /usr/src/ or in /usr/local/src no linux kernel file only in /boot i found one, but i dont know wheter its a full kernel or not.
And about the compiling problem its happen but when i compile for other program i can compile the program n run smoot, so i think maybe the driver ? So i try to download the driver again.

thanks for all who help me, i relly appcriate it, coz im newbie to linux.

the kernel-source rpm is probably on your Linux CD, so you have to install it. Use the Package or Software Install menus in your graphic Display, or simply double-click on the kernel-source file on your CD.
You need the kernel sources only if the driver you are compiling uses them, some ones do, some ones use their own things. When you compile a driver and have errors, like "unknown thngs", this probably means that some sources are missing.

Hello

I wanna start learning php and I believe linux is the best for that but i couldn't find the localhost directory to replace the index.html file with my html file! It says when I go to http://localhost that the server software in the system is operational and I can replace the index.html file ! but I had enough searching and I really donno in which directory I can find it.

btw I am using mandrake 9.2

thanx

Please start new threads if you're going to start new topics. That had nothing to do with this thread.

Try /var/www/

--Rounan

Just look where the original index.html file is :
find / -print |grep -i index.htm
it's probably in the apache server home directory, but I personaly don't really know where it is.

@rounan

i've donwload again the modem driver. n extract it using tar -xzvf slmdm-2.7.14 . n i try to copy the linux kernel header (?) in /boot directory consist of these files: (i copy those files to /usr/src/linux2.4.22-10mdk/):

-config-2.4.22-10mdk
-initrd-2.4.22-10mdk
-kernel.h
-kernel.h-2.4.22-10mdk
-vmlinuz-2.4.22-10mdk

but still getting error msg while compile (after editing the makefile) here are the error quote:

gcc -Wall -03 -fomit-frame-pointer -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DMODULE -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -I. -I/
usr/src/linux2.4.22-10mdk/ -DMODVERSIONS --include /usr/src/linux2.4.22-10mdk//linux/modversions.h
-o amrmo_init.c
make: gcc: Command not found
make: *** [amrmo_init.o] Error 127

do you know what is all about? i think that i mistaken while edit the makefile in the driver modem, or should i extract all the kernel (full kernel from the cd) not copying from /boot.

or u'll help me editing the makefile ? in case if u needing the makefile i'll post it latter here or send it to u (if u don't mind).