On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Jeff Nelson wrote: > 1. I am not tied to a particular distribution and am willing to try > another. Recommendations accepted. try gentoo, though it takes longer to install it is excelent with unusual hardware that needs software to be recompiled for support. > 2. sound. ALSA snd-intel8x0 is the default module and it is loaded. The PCI > ID is 8086:24c5:103c:0890, description is "ICH4 845G/GL Chipset AC'97 Audio > Controller". The external light indicating MUTE is turned on, but pressing > buttons to raise/lower volume or unmute have no effect. I have run a > character-based mixer program (the usual troubleshooting advice say to run > aumix but that is not installed!) and verified that volumes are up and > nothing is muted except the microphone. What next? if you are using alsa then it is muted by default try: alsamixer or alsamixer-gui and unmute and crank up the volume on both Master and PCM the alsa init scripts _should_ save the volume as it was at shutdown and reload them at bootup. > 3. Wireless network configuration. I really need this to work and am not > sure what I need to do. The PCI ID is 168c:0013:0e11:00e5. getting wireless to work is usually not a big problem IF the chipset is supported. > 4. Need to enable power management options in Kernel and rebuild. gentoo also supports ACPI, and while ACPI support in linux is lacking it is enough to to fiddle with the CPU throttling, and other nifty ACPI features. -- Munir Nassar RedConcepts.NET http://redconcepts.net/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list