* Aduanne Carter (Drow@Blazenet.net) [990430 05:35]:
tricia wrote:
Okay I do hope these arent dumb questions, but I am afraid with just five days experience with Linux I cant tell what is dumb or not yet *grin*
I gave that other operating system the filick and loaded SuSE on Sunday, so far I have got ppp working and am accessing the net etc and slowly beginning to figure everything else out.
My questions are
1. I decided to have a go at configuring the soundcard this morning, after reading heaps of maual stuff etc. I have disabled PnP in the bios. When I use "/sbin/pnpdump > /etc/iaspnp.conf" I then get this message "lspci not found, so PCI resource conflict not checked???? In simple terms what is this all about?? What do I do about it??
Does it still dump your possible hardware settings? lspci is a program, you just probably don't have the package installed. Even then I don't think you can use lspci until you are using the 2.2.X kernels. If you have disabled pnp in you bios, I would assume that you can set up things manually? If that is the case, and your soundcard is on the motherboard, you don't need pnpdump/isapnp, just use the settings you used in your bios, or maybe card defauts.
As Aduanne Carter said, this program is not required and will only work with 2.2.x Linux kernels. isapnp wants to use this program to be certain that the settings it uses will not conflict with PCI-used settings. In practice this is relatively easily avoided. You can simply cat /proc/pci and check what settings are in use. Alternatively, you may want to avoid this process, as some find it difficult. The SuSE distribution includes a free copy of the Open Sound System with all the ISA drivers in it. You can install this using YaST; look in the 'pay' series for the package titled 'oss'. More full instructions can be located here: <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/sdb/en/html/rb_oss.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/sdb/en/html/rb_oss.html</A">http://www.suse.de/sdb/en/html/rb_oss.html</A</A>>
2. I have diald operating, but it disconnects in a very short time if idle, I have a flat account so can stay connected as long as I like, I would like to extend this idle time, where do I do that?
Not sure cause I don't use diald, but I think you can edit the config file, maybe /etc/diald.conf or maybe a file in /etc/diald directory?
Looking in the diald manpage I see that this behaviour can be controlled with the use of 'accept' commands, which will bring the line up and keep it up, or with 'keepup' commands, which will only keep the line up. These start around line 1080 of the diald man page. Take a peek at the /etc/diald.conf and /etc/diald.defs files and see if it is clear where to change these. If not, I could install the package and take a peek myself. Respectfully, -josh
Good Luck!
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