On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, William Lindley wrote:
> Two questions...
>
> 1. Each time I boot my notebook computer into Mandrake Linux 7.0, I get a
> horrendous screech because the Microphone input and the Speaker outputs
> are both turned on to maximum. How can I prevent this?
That would depend on which mixer program is being invoked during
startup. For example try looking in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit to see what's
being used, and then see if there's a man page for it. Or, try
"rpm -qa | grep -i mix" to see if that turns up a mixer package; then
"rpm -ql package-name" tells you what's in it.
> 2. Under Linux, what program do I run to check the hard disk for bad
> sectors? (i.e., what's the equivalent of SCANDISK or Norton Utilities)
man fsck
man e2fsck
-- Rod
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