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Well, first of all there is the help for each option which is sometimes very informative... other times extremely cryptic.

The most useful part is when the kernel developers say something like "if...

In fact, here's how you can find out what the module you're talking about is doing, or any module for that matter;

$$ modinfo snd-seq
filename: ...

OK, nearly there.

snd-seq is the alsa module (I believe so, not absolutely certain) for the sequencer... some applications use the sequencer, some don't.

I think all snd-*** modules are alsa...

Sorry, I missed your reply earlier with the /download directory issue.

This is a problem that I don't really have a clean solution for. The recommended way is to make a group (say downloads) and...

Essentially, if you want file my file.txt that belongs to user A to be fully accessible by another user B, there are two ways of doing it:

1. chmod 777 file.txt makes the file completely open to...

Of course, the /etc/modules.autoload way will only work with some distros, I don't know if it's the gentoo way. If you were running debian you'd edit the /etc/modules file.

(BTW, I did ask at a...

By the way, what mobo do you have? I did a quick google search for XK600S and found nothing!

From your current dmesg output I can see that you have a pretty modern system with kernel 2.6.6 (I...

Of course, you should be able to boot into your computer regardless of what linux distro you are using. Most, if not all, linux distros these days come on a bootable CD (or even DVD, as does my...

Hi,

I don't which module you need to get sound but there are three ways that I can see for you to proceed:

1. wait until someone with the same motherboard and/or sound chip writes back to tell...

I still haven't decided on this...

How about I change the question: Has anyone got a recommendation for a TV card that works under Linux including a remote control?

Let's even add that price...

Hi all,

I have 2 really weird problems in quake 3 and urban terror.

1. if I dhcp (in Debian dhclient) but my ADSL modem-router is not connected, I cannot start quake 3. This means that I can't...

Oops, I didn't know that later versions of gcc work fine for kernel compilation. This is where the problem starts, you tell people to read the F manual, they do and then get the wrong (or incomplete...

Hey there,

I'm just doing a quick survey of what TV cards people out there are using with Linux.

I'm currently using a Pinnacle PCTV (the old version pre-RAVE) but I was hoping to install it on...

I have seen the sym linking suggested in a quick googling that I did when I was compiling the 2.6 series myself. It may work but you have to remember that it is a hack and not a solution.

The...

You should not build the 2.6 series kernels with gcc version 2.96 and above. If I remember correctly, the kernel install files explicitly say that weird things can heppen if you compile the beast...

RPM packages can be in binary form or in source form where you can compile them for yourself. I don't use RPMs as I'm a Debian user but here's what you can do:

Read:

man rpm

and
...

What software is it?

If it's a CD image, you'll need software to burn it on a CD, otherwise, if it's just a file you need to:

chmod +x filename.bin

so it becomes executable and then:
...

Dude,

you're not helping yourself. Have you read the man page for "du"? One of the options is human-readable format so you can see how many mega-giga-tera-whatever bytes that / partition actually...

The size of your / filesystem should be the last thing that comes out of du /.

But, do a: "fdisk /dev/hda" (if Linux is on the C drive) or "fdisk /dev/hdb" (if Linux in on the D drive) as windows...

Hi again,

for information regarding linux filesystems have a look at:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Filesystems-HOWTO.html

and for information on du:...

I don't know if the two problems (pci and hd usage) are related. But, for the had drive usage, just do a:

$ du /

and it should give you a list of the size of all files and directories in your...

Hmm, strange.

Which version are you running. Go to Help -> About.

I'm running 2.2.5.5 and it does have a login behaviour tab. You did run it as root, right?

Make sure you have the basic...

To get the two options you want back:

1. start xterm
2. su
3. <enter root password>
4. gdmconfig
5. go to th login behaviour tab
6. tick the appropriate button
7 Done!

You may just have a stale lock file in your .mozilla profile directory so mozilla "thinks" it's already running where in fact it isn't.

This tends to happen if mozilla crashes on exit.

There's no "sometimes" involved here. The man page I mentioned will tell you exactly in what order X looks for the files and the first one on that list that is found will be loaded. There is no...