On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 19:40 -0500, Donn Washburn wrote:
I've recently introduced my dear, grey haired old mother to the delights of computers and, seeing as she is using one of my machines, she will be using Linux, specifically Suse 9.2.
While she has had a little experience of some Windows systems it's all fairly new to her, so watching her using a Linux desktop is quite revealing. It seems she gets stuck just as often with either OS, mainly with pop-ups and sudden change of focus of windows on the screen, along with silly things like typing e,s and c for the ESC key. We are using KDE along with applications like KMail. Obviously these things will come with practise and experience - the point to note being that the learning curve seems pretty much the same for Linux and Windows. I relate as I put my 83 year old Dad on SuSE 9.0 (could upgrade but Why?) He is as happy as a clam in muddy water. Previously I was faced with a daily correction of his past use of MS Winblows. He picked it up and I never hear from him now for Computer problems. I yea! he did complain one time due to the fan on the power supply rattling. Fixed
The specific problem here with Skype was with setting up the 'voice capture' side of things. It works to a fashion now, after some Googling I started setting levels using alsamixer from a terminal, other mixers like KMix and KAMix didn't have a slider control for a 'Digital' element, which is required. It still isn't working quite right, this setting needs to be adjusted after every reboot - alsamixer isn't as GUI user friendly as I would want for my mother and is a cause of irritation. Can anyone tell me how I can set these in a more permanent fashion? Sid Boyce and I both have Skype working. Nothing to it. You will need the sound working. Use Yast2 and set it up - I found my mic. on
Colin Murphy wrote: the using "gamix" on Mic Playback and the output volume on "PCM"
Sid is "sidders" and I am "n5xwbg"
Are you able to get the alerts/ringing portion working? In other words, if someone calls you, does it ring? My choices for the device for this is grayed out. -- Cheers, Trey --- "I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things." -- Dorothy Parker 9:04pm up 13:03, 4 users, load average: 0.09, 0.62, 0.47 Linux salamander 2.6.11.4-21.7-default #1 Thu Jun 2 14:23:14 UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux