ok, I will work with mount, and alsa works, it just doesn't detect the sound, where from here? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 11:31 PM Subject: Re: help with no sound? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 10:01:29PM -0700, Tyler Littlefield wrote: >> I get an error when I try to use alsa, > > Then most likely, the alsa modules you need aren't loaded, or if they > are, then alsa didn't detect your sound card for some reason. If you > know for a fact that your sound card was detected by alsa, then post > what you are doing, and what errors you're getting. > >> and when I try to mount to >> /media/hd1, it tells me I need to specify a filesystem, > > Still assuming that /media/hd1 is defined as a valid mount point in > /etc/fstab for a partition, maybe you do need to load a module. If the > partition you're trying to mount is fat32, then do: > > modprobe vfat > > to load the vfatfs module. If the partition you're trying to mount is > ntfs, then do: > > modprobe ntfs > > to load the ntfs module. If the system tells you the module you're > trying to load isn't found, then you'll need to recompile the kernel, > and include support for the modules you need. > > If it still tells you to specify the file system once you've > successfully load the module you need, then the entry in /etc/fstab for > /media/hd1 is probably incorrect, and you'll need to specify the drive > you want to mount to the mount command. For example, if you're trying > to mount the first partition of your second drive on /media/hd1, the > command you'd use is: > > mount /dev/hdb1 /media/hd1 > > If you want to mount the first partition of your second drive on > /media/hd1, and explicitly tell the system that this is an ntfs > partition, the command you'd use would be something like: > > mount /dev/hdb1 -t ntfs /media/hd1 > > If one of these mount commands works for you, then you'll need to > modify /etc/fstab to point /dev/hdb1 to the /media/hd1 mount > point. What the /etc/fstab line to do that would look like depends on > the file system a partition uses. To read about how to use mount, and > umount, read the mount((8), and the umount(8) manual pages. To read > the man page for mount, you'd type: > > man mount > > Note also that the modprobe commands I've mentioned above need to be > executed as root, and so does the mount command, if you need to > specify the drive and partition to mount. > > > >> I am not sure if I >> understand what you mean. >> > > Then go read the fstab(5) man page. > > Greg > > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFD+BC07s9z/XlyUyARAkvUAJ476UbnkpMn6f0pseEVyypyErEsOwCdFWrx > lVHr3sBAZ1Bbx5foskauH94= > =mr6V > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
