New to Linux

[purple98tj]

Just sayin' hi! I have installed RH 9.0 on an old PIII Compaq. I have all my HW running but just need to learn how to do some basic things such as make all the buttons work on my mouse and get the digital output on my SB Live! card working. I'm really enjoying working on this OS, it brings me back to when I was learning Microsquish dos....

Eric

[farslayer]

Welcome to Linux,

just a pointer. Redhat 9.0 is old. so old in fact that redhat doesn't even support it anymore. you may want to consider using a newer distribution you will have much better luck with hardware support on the more recent versions of Linux than the old..

The Current free version of Redhat is Fedora Core 4 (redhat 9 was originally replaced with Fedora core 1 ) http://fedora.redhat.com/

as for your mouse you may want to take a peek here: http://llg.cubic.org/docs/mouse.html


Check out the alsa info for the card.. doesn't appear to have support for the Digital output at this time..
http://opensource.creative.com/
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...ve_Labs#matrix

[hamburger123]

for the mouse this might help

and like farslayer said, you might consider using a newer distribution.

[purple98tj]

I have FC4. I will give it a go!

Eric

[purple98tj]

OK,
I installed (upgraded RH 9) FC4. I tried to run yum and got command not found. How do I install yum?

Eric

[bonniehandi]

You have to install yum first.

You can get the rpm for yum from pretty much all the repositories.

[bonniehandi]

Or you can follow this site:

http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...notes.html#Yum

It teach you to set up yum and repositories. Please note that you should not be using the repositories indicated in this site if you are using livna.org.

[purple98tj]

Well, after a disasterous install I wound up doing a fresh install of FC4. Much better! Yum is there and working!

Thanks,

Eric

[farslayer]

Glad to see you are making progress, how goes the quest to get all your mouse buttons working ?

[purple98tj]

Glad to see you are making progress, how goes the quest to get all your mouse buttons working ?

I gave up on the mouse. It is a cordeless cheap one, the batteries died so I switched to a corded usb. I will tackle the button in there near future....