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I found a workaround for my problem; install Fedora Core 1 instead of Red Hat Linux 9. It is directly based on Red Hat Linux 9 and has improvements. Most importantly full support for the internal sound device of the laptop. It also supports the old Linux software I wanted to use, and has the...

Thanks again for your XFCE GtkDialog instructions! 😁

It worked! Thank you very much! Sorry for taking almost 20 months to reply. In my account preferences I did not have "and receive email notifications" checked for "Automatically watch content you create", so I was not informed (and I did not sign in again until now).

Hello all, This is a long shot, as my own internet searching proved fruitless. However, I have a Jabra GN2000 USB Duo headset, which is the only USB sound device I have tried that works without issues on my retro Red Hat Linux 9 (Code name Shrike) system. It has to be a USB device, as this...

As announced in Arch Linux News on 2022-01-21; the Arch linux-firmware package has been split such that uncommon hardware is no longer part of the main firmware package. As such, my Qlogic fiber channel card now needs a separate package to operate. If you are curious and do not know what Linux...

Thank you for your prompt reply. An interesting idea, given that Nautilus does respond to the Xfce Appearance preference tool for changing themes. However, I could not find anything to change button placement there. I did find by launching "xfwm4-settings" (or clicking "Window Manager" in the...

Does anyone know how to move dialog buttons in Nautilus to the bottom of the dialog? I am using Arch Linux, with Xfce as my desktop environment. Thunar is the default for this DE, but I have Nautilus set as my file manager (I like the search function). Recently, the 'Cancel' and 'Save' buttons...

I had some significant trouble installing Microsoft Office 2019 on a laptop, with Windows 10, which had Office 2016 installed on it. Every attempt to install 2019 resulted in 2016 coming up; despite going through the uninstall process (even manually removing registry keys). Looking online others...

I have devised commands that work well for my backup use case. I am posting them here for anyone else who is new to tape. First off, these commands use the rewind tape device (/dev/st0 which rewinds the tape after every operation, as opposed to /dev/nst0) as they are not for writing multiple...

That is interesting. Are all PCI Express widths electrically compatible? Why do they make closed-ended slots? It would be nice if I could have my PCIe video card and the fiber channel card both inserted at the same time. I could accept the speed trade-off. Oh well. I suppose the reason for...

Thank you very much! I did not know you could do that. I placed the Qlogic card in my PCI-Ex16 slot, hooked everything up, and looked at what lshw could now see. Not only could it see a "ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA" it also saw a "Ultrium 3-SCSI". To be doubly sure I...

Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried searching with this information and had no luck finding a downloadable driver. If anyone else wants to try, here is a close up of the big chip: As for the Qlogic card, it turns out to be PCI Express x4 (as the listing description specified). My...

Looking into the "UNCLAIMED" message about the fibre channel card, a GTK+ front-end for lshw reports that "this device hasn't been claimed". Searching this error message results in multiple references to there being no driver for the device in the kernel. This would explain why I am getting...

Thank you for your prompt reply. It looks like the tape drive should show up as /dev/st0. However, I can find no such device. Here is the output from the command "sudo lshw -short": H/W path Device Class Description ====================================================...

Hello all, I find that having multi-terabyte hard disk drives and the ability to record HD video means that I have a lot of data that needs backing up. Some quick research lead me to LTO tapes as the most affordable high capacity means of backing up data. So, I went to eBay and bought a used...

Anyone with a MIDI keyboard, MIDI adapter (most likely USB), and a desire to improve their ability to play the Piano, should look into PianoBooster. It is an excellent way to play along with a MIDI file, as it will give you live feedback on your accuracy. If you can find MIDI files of your...

While I do not need to do very much PDF creation/editing, whenever I do I use Inkscape. It can mess the fonts up a bit and can not handle exporting multiple pages (to my knowledge). However, it can import/export PDFs and has been an easy way for me to add nicely printed text to documents. It is...

I consider optical drives to be absolutely essential. I am still using internal optical drives in my desktop computers. However, I can not think of a reason for internal rather than external. In my case, it seems to mostly be habit.