Where to go after i installed Debian and KDE?

[Imaginer]

I have a few questions on my newly installed system.

I have a Hercules Game Theather XP card and i need to get its sound up and running.

I also have a Radeon all in wonder and would like to be able to use DVD and run divx and avi with mp4.
any special packages i need to get for these?

And finally, what is something fun I can do in this system? Eventually I would like to build my experiences in debian
to be able to cluster old machines i have so i can use their computing power 🙂 Not to mention later when i upgrade, i
can have somewhere to put my old machines to use.

Thanks for responding and I hope Debian would be treating me well.

 

[mgpaulus]

To get your sound up, you will need a window which is root (you can either open an xterm and then su -, or hit CTRL-ALT-F1 and get a terminal. CTRL-ALT-F8 will take you back to X). Once you have a root window, run modconf, and scroll down to kernel/drivers/sound.
Inside of sound, you might try cs46xx, since it looks like the Hercules Game Theater XP is based upon a CS4630 chipset.

GL.

 

[Imaginer]

I have did that and I still cant get anything with sound.

help?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Any errors?

 

[Imaginer]

the device /dev/dsp can't be opened because permission was denied.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Imaginer
the device /dev/dsp can't be opened because permission was denied.

Check your permissions.

 

[foocoding]

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Originally posted by: Imaginer
the device /dev/dsp can't be opened because permission was denied.
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Check your permissions.

Remember, he sounds like a newbie (no offence). Don't go chmodding stuff, add yourself to the wheel group. If that doesnt work, I'm not sure.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: foocoding

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Originally posted by: Imaginer
the device /dev/dsp can't be opened because permission was denied.
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Check your permissions.

Remember, he sounds like a newbie (no offence). Don't go chmodding stuff, add yourself to the wheel group. If that doesnt work, I'm not sure.

There are FAQs on this. A quick chmod for that one device shouldnt hurt too much, but he should definitely keep an eye on what it said originally.

 

[Workin']

Just make sure you are a member of the group "audio" - no need to chmod or anything like that.

/dev/dsp is usually owned by the audio group. At least it was on all my Debian machines.