assorted newbie problems
 

OS = mandrake 9.1
sound card = VIA AC'97 PCI (i do not know anything else about this card)




hi all

well here goes

1. one of my cd drives is showing as a scsi
the point here being is that i do not have any scsi hardware! (posibly my dvd player as i can not play dvd's at the moment..the program hangs and disk reads and reads and reads but that's it no movie!)

2. my sound card is not working!

but it works fine under knoppix 3.2 (live cd)!

3. americas army cd does NOT auto boot! (same goes for RTCW)

my computer is cd boot enabled but it still does not boot.

3.1 could i use LILO to boot live cd's??? if so how?

4. i have morphix games 0.4 can any body help here i do not know how to install it!!!!!

i am new to this i only installed mandrake a few hours ago


:cool:

please please reply :confused:

Re: assorted newbie problems
 

1. Most likely not your DVD drive but a CD-RW drive. Older versions of cdrecord needs SCSI emulation to write CDs. Same thing as Windows too but the average user just never "see" it.

2. I know absolutely that your card is being detected by Mandrake... you just have to unmute it and turn up the volume. If under KDE, try running kmix.

3. I don't have any of these games... but are you sure the CDs are bootable? Got any reference sites?

4. Technically yes, but not in the way in which you're thinking to boot those games CD. If the CDs are really bootable, they will boot provided you've set your BIOS to attempt boot from CD drive before hard disk.

5. I don't have that game.

thanks for the info!

www.gentoogames.com
(for americas army and return to castle wolfensien)

and yer i will be patient ;)

i have to wate for a new modem any way (winmodem my a$$)

hey it worked!!!!!!!

the goddam MUTE button

this "problem" sucked how goddam simple. how in the hell are people ment to know of this if it aint written DOWN (or did i miss it)?

any way still have problems running DVD's i am using mplayer i right click the window when opened and select play DVD and it loads and loads and loads and loads....then i have to use kill to stop it...it won't even let me eject the DVD! any help would be greatly appreciated

oh yer

it says (some times) that this media is not supported?....:(

excuse the multiple posts :)

americas army has no sound i am able to open a terminal but what commands do i use to configure my sound card (same goes with RTCW:enemy teritory) i think it will let me do this any help would be appreciated

Of course it works... i never posted anything misleading :p

Well, actually I was an ex-Mandrake user and 9.1 was the last release I used... so I am quite familiar with some of its stupidities... err... features I mean.

I have AA... and I do get sound in it. Have you checked your "Sound Configuration" options? I don't have ROtCW though... sorry.

hahaaa (it is true for all of us)

i will try that but how do i try that?? in a turm do i type sound configuration....or some thing. if you are refuring to the in game options that just asks if i want reverse stereo ect...but if not i told u i was a newbie. how can i compress files in windows for transport to mandrake? (it is virtualy the stock package with a few extra apps added).

hey.

did you notice that the GIMP was not in your k-menu when you installed it?