Re: two intractable problems

2003-09-15 Thread Kent West
Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: On the Toshiba Tecra 780 laptop, I can't get sound with any modern distro. Not Debian, not Redhat 9, not SuSE 8.2. SuSE 7.3 does it, but then no Gnome 2 and no gnomemeeting. I had a look at the modules loaded in SuSE 7.3/alsa 0.5, and I've built alsa 0.9 and alsa 0.5

two intractable problems

2003-09-14 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Apologies for cross-posting. I'm trying to get my Dad's machines set up so I can leave the US and return Down Under, and I'm tearing my hair out with some problems I'm running into. I bought both the machines involved, and have run Linux on them successfully for a while, and so has he. We want g