On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 12:34:44PM +0800, Rocky Ou wrote: > Hey List, > > I have sarge 3.1 runing smoothly on my desktop. Yet I encountered some > difficulties as I'm wanting more features. If any of you could give me some > hints regarding to the following items, I would really appreciate it? > > 1. How can I make my computer speak or sing? I mean I can see the > small speaker icon show at the bottom right of my PC's screen(in window we > call it task bar but i don't know how linux name it) but I can not hear any > voice. Do I need to apt-get install a particular package to manager my > sound > machinism? What are their names? I do not know the model of my sound card > but it works fine under windows XP system.
Are you using a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel? ('uname -r') If it's 2.4 you need the alsa-modules package appropriate to your kernel. If you can't find it tell us what kernel you have, and we can let you know the package name. It should be alsa-modules-<your kernel version> You'll also need alsa-base. alsa-utils will help you configure it, and alsa-oss will allow some older programs to output sound. Once you install alsa-utils do an 'alsaconf' as root then an 'alsamixer'. This should set up your sound card. > 2. How can I mount to my usb port devices? I have a MP3 player. I can > plug into USB port and copy & paste content betwen PC's harddrive and MP3 > player. But when I switch to Debian, I do not know how to have access to > it. > The USB port works fine tested by plug in a usb keyboard. Others have suggested how to work with that. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument. -- Larry Wall in the perl man page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]