Hi Dave! On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Dave Csercsics wrote:
Well I have made some progress. I found the driver that my network card needed. I just had it set under another name which didn't help too much. So I have my network card working so I can access the net.
Sounds good ;-).
Still have no sound though. I tried to configure the sound card but it keeps saying that an error has occurred and I should check to see if Alsa is properly installed. So I installed a whole swack of soudn stuff including alsa but it didn't seem to help the problem. What can I do to fix this.
Please send me the output of the following command: lsmod I'm using a soundblaster live too, but I hadn't this problems during installation. Perhaps everything works, if I send you my alsa configurationfile...
Another question I have is I figured out how to send email but how the heck do I receive messages.
You can receive messages with fetchmail and sendmail sends your written messages. See man fetchmail for more details. Sendmail is a very complex pacage. See also the manpages and the following files, witch should be adjusted with xour mailspecific data: /etc/rc.config.d/sendmail.rc.config /etc/mail/genericstable After editing this files, you have to run SuSEconfig to update the system with your new settings. If you have trouble with the configuration, I'll try to help you.
And how do I subscribe to and read newsgroups?
pine is a good mailer an I use it also for reading and sending news, but there are many other programms. For example tinn is a very popular newsreader. Now it depends on you, if you want to use an local newsserver witch receives and sends your subscribed newsgroups or if xou want to use a server on the internet. For example leafenode is very good offline newsserver, wich has many more features.
I was also wondering if there is a good icq port for linux.
I'm useing licq wich is on the distri or micq. They are very good to handle with SBL.
How do I make blinux show the braille cursor as just dots 7 and 8 blinking instead of a full braille cell?
You have to setup this for every application and for bash. Just take a
look into the directory
/usr/lib/suse-blinux/profile
Heere are the profiles for SBL. If you want a blinking cursor wich is no
full braille cell open the profile for wich you want to setup this and
change the following entries:
blockcsr=0
0 shows only dots 7 and 8, 1 the whole braille cell.
csrblink=1
1 shows a blinking, 0 a normal cursor.
I hope some of my tips are helpfull for you. Just aks, if you had more
questions or if something was not really clear to your ;-).
Best regards and have fun with linux,
Schoeppi
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SuSE-Blinux Support
Christian Schöpplein