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Wed, 2003-07-09 20:25 — Anonymous
hi guys
well, i am a newbie both to linux and the tlug, so please be patient with me :) i was just wondering what you guys do at meetings, as i am generally interested in linux.
i myself just installed debian on my old laptop, but sound doesn't seem to work (ESS Solo-1) and i just can't install mplayer, some @#$%ed up dependency with kdebase3-audiolib which doesn't seem to exist... any ideas?
in addition, what is the best server around here to get packages from using apt?
how do i turn off netenv? (i only use one network setting at the moment...)
rtfm, i know, but i am a lazy bastard :) thanks in advance for your patience :)
regards,
Blade (no, not based on the vampire-slayer comic, but long story...)
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as far as debian mirrors go, there aren't any local ones that i know of, but if you don't want to use one of the ones provided by the installer, you could try mirror.datafast.net.au, which is generally quite good.
As for your soundcard, i've never encountered that particular one, but i think you'll have to pass the io and irq parameters that the card requires to the module when you load it. (you should be able to get the parameters from the bios, and pass them to the module using:
modprobe esssolo1 io=0x000 irq=0
(replace with whatever your values are)
finally, afaik, mplayer doesn't have any dependencies with kde, atleast not when compiling from source, but then, i don't use kde.
Regards,
Draco