I just installed Linux and I have a few quick questions.
 

Ok, I just installed Red Hat Linux 7.2 on my system and I want to get to know it. Unfortunately, I have NO idea what I'm doing. I have three questions that have already popped up.

1 - I installed LILO and extracted its boot sector as Linux.bin and am using it to boot Linux from the Windows 2000/XP boot manager. When I pick "Linux" from the menu, it gives me another choice (Linux or DOS)... I guess this is LILO, but I want to remove it (i've already chosen my OS, don't have to do it again...) How do I remove it? If I have to reinstall Linux... I think I might actually do that.

2 - I have two sound cards in my system - one on-board (crappy) and a SoundBlaster PCI64. I dunno which Linux uses by default, but it sounds crappy, so I'm guessing its the crappy one. Can I switch the default sound card without disableing the on-board card from the BIOS?

3 - How do I make my scroll mouse work?

Thanks a ton in advance - see ya around.

lilo
 

look at the /etc/lilo.conf file. you could remove the DOS entry and put in a '0' delay . for more info, read the LILO howto at http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html

wheel mouse: if it's not alread installed (rh may have something already), search for imwheel at http://rpmfind.net - home page: http://jcatki.dhs.org/imwheel/

Don't see the LILO howto... I opened the LILO.CONF and took out the DOS option and changed the timeout to 0, but it doesn't seem to have changed anything.

Hmm..

Yeah, I made sure I saved it, and yeah, I opened the LILO.CONF from the "ETC" directory on the root of the drive. Is there something else I need to do to get the options to take effect?

just saving lilo.conf doesn't make the changes, you have to run it then reboot for the changes to take affect.

at command: /sbin/lilo

and that should do it for you.. then reboot..

uhhh...
 

run the command as root> lilo

itll show yu the results and there yu go

[QUOTE]Originally posted by aaronkelley
Don't see the LILO howto...
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http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html

2) If you're running KDE, try opening KMix. This should have a little tab that has the name of the Sound device. It might even have two, in which case you're laughing.

Oh, not being cheeky, but surely checking which board the sound is coming from (i.e. which hole the plug is in) would tell you which card Linux is using.

If you went with the RH defaults, you probably have Gnome instead of KDE. For that one, Under the foot, multimedia, mixer(?), and fiddle with those settings. The default settings for the mixer under RH have always given me distortion. Oddly enough, the default under Mandrake is everything off... or was with 8.0. The SB Soundcard is brilliantly supported under Linux, so its probably not that at least.

Cheers,

Finegan

Yeah, well, my speakers have two input slots so I have both cards plugged in, plus a lot of crap plugged into both soundcards.

ANYWAY

Thanks for the help, I'm sure I'll be back with more questions.

For the scroll mouse edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4,add the following the the pointer section
and change the protocol to "IMPS/2", restart your x server and the wheel will work, you don't need to install imwheel.