Redhat 7.1 buggy for me...

[dhyatt]

I just installed this last night and already I had an error at login and now my sound does not work unless logged in as root and Whenever I minimize a window it dissapears so that I can't bring it back up.

Also I just downloaded the Power tools CD from Red Hat and would like to know where is the install for Wine?

Do I need to ****ch my Distro to Mandrake...I hate getting errors I don't know how to fix. I'm still new to Linux, this is very frustrating!

[milanuk]

Dunno, man. My 7.1 install is abso-friggin'-lutely flawless. Love it. Smooth and stable so far. You might try going to the Redhat site, dig around and find the Redhat-list mailing list archives and see if some of the symptoms you're having are discussed. Be warned, the search engine there has had problems in the not-so-distant past, so you may have to use your eyeballs a little to search instead of a search engine. You can also try joining the mailing list; there are several RedHat customer service employees that track the list in their free time, but it is on their own, not a paid part of their job, so please don't get after them if they don't walk you thru it. There are a lot of other knowledgeable folk there as well.

As a last ditch effort, you might try reinstalling and taking very careful dead-tree notes of what you installed, what answers you gave to which question and whatnot. It could prove useful in asking for help, both on the redhat-list, here, or on some newsgroup like comp.os.linux.misc or comp.os.linux.setup. Hopping distros to find the 'magic' fix is generally a lost cause, since sooner or later, every distro flubs up someone's pet piece of hardware one way or another.

HTH,

Monte

[ZinovyLR]

If you find that Redhat is less stable than Mandrake you have to inhaling glue or something. Your sound problem happens to a lot of people. Its not a Redhat only problem. I remmber seeing posts about it somewhere else on this BBS.

[dhyatt]

Thanks milanuk for the helpfull advice. When the error happened it said it recorded it as a known bug with KDE 2.1 and that I should send it if I had the resources to do so. However that alone doesn't tell me enough to know how to go about that...so my question on this is where do I find this info in my box?

[pbharris]

Hello,
open a terminal as root.
type chmod 666 /dev/dsp
play some sounds and see if that helps.


milanuk - i like your sig!