a cautionary tale
- From: ac <"aec$news"@candt.waitrose.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:14:06 +0100
I am using suse 10.0 on a dell inspiron 1100. I had to reinstall
everything on the machine after I changed the hard drive to a larger
size. The machine gets used for stuff when on the move including
managing audio files (and streams) and photos. Oh - and it is dual
boot, with xp, installed from the original dell CDs, (OS and drivers).
I used win stuff for years, ever since dos days, so I am not a
beginner with xp. I have just today had reason to play audio in xp
mp3, wma, CD, bbc radio etc. and find that the audio device is not
working. It may never have worked since the reinstall. I looked again
on the dell driver cd - all ok apparently. I reinstalled real player,
uninstalled total recorder (audio recording), still no audio. Rebooted
a few times as you do. I guess it needs some sort of driver but I have
followed the various links that have been offered, no joy.
I have taken some time over this as you might guess.
Maybe the laptop itself is faulty? I used suse linux and was straight
away listening to bbc radio (live) with firefox with no problem - the
hardware is fine.
I know that when I talk about linux in a local PC shop they don't
think linux has drivers. (They think that windows does).
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ac
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