Re: [SLUG] KDE sound and CUPS issues with Slack 10

From: Justin Prior (justin.p@fusemail.com)
Date: Sat Dec 25 2004 - 10:29:46 EST


On Friday 24 December 2004 10:28 pm, Robert Snyder wrotE

I got them from the KDE mirror. There was no KDE on my box when I installed
them. I installed everything but e/, kde/, kdei/ and g/. I used wget to get
the KDE packages. I'll try the new 3.3.3 packs from pat, probably not today
though. I'll give it a whirl and report back. Thanks.

Justin

> Justin Prior wrote:
> >All,
> >
> >First, Happy Holidays. Ok. I reloaded my Slack 10 install kde and used
> > the KDE contrib slack-packs for my KDE 3.3.2. Now my sound won't work
> > (where it did in the past). I am running the generic 2.6.7 kernel. The
> > error says "/dev/dsp not found". I have tried upgrading arts as well as
> > alsa. Nothing seems to work and Linuxquestions.org seems to be no help.
> > Maybe an upgrade to the 2.6.9 kernel in current/testing. Who knows.
> >
> >I am also having issues with CUPS. Can't start or stop the daemon. Who
> >knows. I can keep messing with it. Anyone know of any issues? I have
> >searched and nothing.
>
> Justin where exactly did you get those slack-packs. I personally never
> trust anything from linuxquestions or Linuxpackages.com There are
> some kde 3.3.3 packages that Patrick made that are sitting on slackware
> mirrors. i downloaded everything in the kde 3.3.3 directory that
> Patrick had made and then upgradepkg *.tgz had had no problems. if you
> use install package when you already have a previouse version of kde
> installed it will mess thing up.
>
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Justin
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