I'm having problem setting up a Kubuntu 5.10
(Breezy) system on an old Pentium II 350 box
with an old SoundBlaster card and an Acer
7133s monitor.
It is not recognizing the Sound Blaster. I get an
error message box saying "Error while initializing
the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened;
no such file or directory." That's on the Autodetect
setting. Other messages on other device settings.
I installed "esound" because some occurrences of
this message were reported fixed by that, but no go.
When I try to configure the display, it does not ask
what kind of monitor I have, and won't offer me
better than 800x600 resolution. Adding insult to
injury, the sound setup dialog demands more than
800x600 and has no scroll bar!
To that last problem, I know I've had Linux setups
before where I had "virtual desktop" space so that I
could pan around by dragging the mouse. Is there
some way I can use that here?
Any suggestions (or even just sympathy!) would be
appreciated. I'm doing this for a friend who has
no money and is no hacker. (I've got half a mind to
just go out and buy him a Mac mini!)
A recommendation for a better distro for old
equipment might also solve my problem. I've got
good bandwidth, so burning a few experimental
CDs is no problem at all.
TIA,
Vic
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