Azle, Texas, United States Hi I'm Don, I write, sing and record songs of my own and I like doing this very much. My music is on my web site. My first album is called DonSongs and my second one is called Living Beings - Climate Control. You can Download and listen and save all our songs on my web site at DonSongs.com and it's completely free. My favorite hobby now is computers.
I like to fix old Computers and make them usable again with different Linux Operating Systems or just fix up messed up WindBlows systems;). I really like researching interesting things on the Internet. I read allot about many things, Technical things on computers and the Internet, interesting discoveries in science, new technology, local and world news and just what ever strikes me as interesting. I am very handy and good with tools, fixing and making things. I like to help my friends with their projects when I can. I love Hot Rods and use to do Motor Swaps and put Big Block Chevy Motors where 6 cylinders once were.
I love 4 Wheeling and Dirt Bike Riding But I don't have a motorcycle any more. I still really like 4 Wheeling in my 1976 Chevy Blazer, when I can afford the Gas and cost of Broken Parts that is.!!!:O Don.
Imagine you are in the boardroom, asked by the president of the company to fix his laptop during a critical presentation. You reach for your handy knoppix on a flash, and set it off to boot, so ready to proudly display the power of freedom during this critical presentation, when, already too late, you remember; that darn startup sound! While Microsoft claims a startup sound you cannot disable is a 'feature' in its one day to be released Vista operating system, and perhaps even has a patent on the idea, we in the free software community have had to contend with this 'feature' for a long time now.
I can tell you, it is not pleasant. What is even more amazing is that in Knoppix they came up with a whole new means of playing sounds just to get that annoying bugger in! While most sounds are part of the desktop event/sound system, the Knoppix startup (and shutdown) audio is not. In fact, someone wisely chose to disable event sounds by default in KDE on Knoppix so it would be silent by default.
Why then did anyone think it would be smart to have a special startup sound you cannot disable? Digging through Knoppix a little, one finds the startup sound is actually played from the xinit scripts themselves directly!
It is played with a script that runs command line audio utilities. No provision exists to disable Knoppix startup sound other than editing the script or removing the.ogg file itself, a neat trick on a read-only burned media. One thing that can be said for Knoppix is that the startup sound is a file, and one can remaster an image without it. There is still power of choice and control, even if there was such poor judgement exercised upstream.
The difference then is that with Microsoft Vista, the user is never trusted or enabled to do what is right.
Knoppix works a treat but lack of sound is killing me (I'm trying to build a media PC!). I know the hardware works cause I got sounds under XP. I've tried most suggestions on these pages but nothing seems to work. I installed with the cheat codes knoppix26 pnpbios=off lang=us alsa wheelmouse, I also tried alsa=intel8x0, but still nothing.
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PS1 the modem also doesn't work if anyone has any ideas. PS2 I also posted this in the lounge area but I suspect that was the wrong place (sorry). Yours Mike Robinson # dmesg egrep -i '(audio sound snd linux processor ac97 alsa tv)' Linux version 2.6.7 (root@Knoppix) (gcc-Version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-3)) #2 SMP Wed Jul 28 04:25:36 CEST 2004 Processor #0 15:3 APIC version 20 Kernel command line: auto BOOTIMAGE=Linux ro root=301 ramdisksize=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off nomce pnpbios=off alsa lang=us wheelmouse Detected 2395.371 MHz processor. Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode.
SELinux: Initializing. SELinux: Starting in permissive mode Total of 1 processors activated (4751.36 BogoMIPS). Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks ACPI: Processor CPU1 (supports C1) Linux Kernel Card Services Linux video capture interface: v1.00 bttv: driver version 0.9.14 loaded bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). Bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 0000:02:09.0, irq: 16, latency: 64, mmio: 0xf7c00000 bttv0: detected: (Askey Magic/others) TView99 CPH06x card=38, PCI subsystem ID is 144f:3000 bttv0: using: Askey CPH06X TView99 card=38,autodetected bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff init bttv0: using tuner=1 bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80. Not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0. Not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a.
Hei You would seem to be missing at least an 'alias snd-card 0 snd-atiixp' in /etc/modutils/alsa or wherever (I'm not in Knoppix right now). Did you do alsaconf? Regards EDIT: Just came across something that may be relevant. 'There's a small trick with the Slackware install I only figured out with some concerted googling. Hotplug automatically loads both the appropriate sound module (snd-atiixp) and another module (snd-atiixp-modem) that causes a conflict, leading to no sound.
So disable the modem one in /etc/hotplug/blacklist'. No luck, I put snd-atiixp-modem in the blacklist file but no change. I've also tried the following with no luck. # /etc/init.d/alsa-autoconfig Preparing modules for alsa. I noticed I get this at startup as root (I'm not very observant)!:- Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. And if I try to play anything # play startup.ogg playing startup.ogg sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': No such device Preparing modules for alsa.
Any ideas folks? Mike Robinson. Code: play /usr/share/sounds/startup.oggNow I have to work out how to get it working for the hard disk install.
It didn't work first time so I'll look at:-. do I need to be in some audio group? Is it starting knoppix with the cheat codes requested (see dmesg)? Is kmix and aumix enabled on startup with correct volumes? Will it play dvd's, CD's, mp3's and the TV with sound? All of this does raise a few questions generally on sounds in linux:-.
Senthamizh pattu mp3 songs free download. why is sound disabled by default? Why have two mixers and not one? Why are volumes set to zero by default? Why not allways load the current volumes? Why do users have to be part of a group to hear sounds? Mike Robinson.
To answer your question: no, it's not possible to have multiple versions of IE (if that is what you meant) installed in a 'normal' way (i.e. Not a hack, a sandbox or a VM etc). It's perfectly ok to have multiple browsers of different types installed on the same machine, such as IE8, Firefox 3 and Chrome all at once. New versions of internet explorer.
I just got Knoppix to work with my sound card, Creative Audigy 2. That was the coolest thing, hearing the female voice saying 'Initializing startup sequence, and Initializing shut-down sequence' or something like that.
Is that a Knoppix thing, or an Alsa thing? I used the cheat code to get alsa working. I would like to get alsa working without a cheat code. I think it has to be added to the kernel as a module, but could someone point me in the right direction for doing that? I remember something about typing in 'make' in a console once when i was fooling around with Mandrake.
Linda, I think its a 'knoppix' thing. But, I am sure, you can change it, either through a setting, or by naming a sound file the same as the one it expects. I have 'always' been a collector of sound clips, my best setup was for my Windows95/98 system. Considering the amount of time it took for the system to boot, I had the Alan Sheppard 'moon' quote: 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind', and when I was shutting down, I used the movie quote from Aliens: 'Game over man, Game over' Just some thoughts, Ms. Linda, The 'Initiating Startup Sequence' sound can be found at /usr/share/sounds/startup.ogg and the 'Initiating Shutdown Sequence' sound can be found at /usr/share/sounds/shutdown.ogg Also, the 'music' that is played after the above 'voice' can be found at the same location, but the files are called: KDEStartup.wav and KDELogout.wav Tons of sounds can be found if you type: locate.wav in a console window (click on the little icon on the bottom of the screen that looks like a monitor with a clam shell in front of it). To exit from this screen/window, just type: exit and it should close.
Hope this helps, Ms. Well, what I meant was that if you run the live CD from a knoppix26 boot prompt, it doesn't play the sounds by default, as it does when booting the default 2.4 kernel without any boot prompt. I had assumed that it was on the disk somewhere. On the bug wiki for 2004-05-10, Fabian said something about linux tag not wanting to pay for the rights any more.
Odd, that in this open source alternative reality where linux thrives, where people give away several-hundred megabyte software for free, you'd think that they could find someone to volunteer to record six simple words for free.