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Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for?

GUI stuff

I am wanting to start some GUI development but I am having a hard time figuring out just what the GUI development is? I see that the GTK libaraires are the base C++ GUI class libraries, but I also see stuff like Gnome and qt* and Glib, and other stuff. Is there any online documentation that sorts

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Any guesses as to what driver to use for this card since it is not directly supported?

chmod on vfat

Only root can write to a vfat partition. I suppose because vfat contains no extended attributes for security you cannot simply chmod on a file/directory to allow someone other than root to write to it. Any work arounds to allow someone other than root to write to a vfat partition? The latest NTF

Ensoniq ES1370 configuration

I have recompiled my kernel (2.2.1) with the es1370.o module and its associated soundlow.o, soundcore.o and sound.o modules. Also loaded OLP2/3 stuff and mpu401. All this stuff loads just fine at boot but I still get no /dev/dsp /dev/sndstat devices at all. Is there something missing? My system

Sound configuration not in initial install

During the drivers installation phase there is no facility for installing sound card info. I find this quite odd since sound is as ubiquitous in computing today as ethernet and TCP/IP. The failure to not allow us to configure sound at the outset forces us newbies to go into the daunting task of r