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| Thread ID: 34433 | 2003-06-13 02:16:00 | Detecting and configuring sound card under Mandrake 9.1 Linux | lardass (262) | Press F1 |
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| 152119 | 2003-06-13 02:16:00 | I have just installed Mandrake 9.1 on my older Celeron 500MHz system in a dual boot setup with Win98SE. The install process appeared to go alright and has detected everything bar my NIC and my sound card. (Will post seperately re: NIC). My sound card is a Genius PCI 5.1 Sound Maker Value card (piece of crap I purchased for $45!) I ain't getting no sound -- installed 'sndconfig' package but still no luck! My methodology was as follows: Selected 'run command' Entered '# su -' Clicked on 'run' System takes me to the Man output-Knoqueror' window displaying an errod message in the main pane. The error mesaage is: "KDE MAN VIEWER ERROR" "No man page matching to su - found. You can extend the search path by setting the environment variable MANPATH before setting KDE" Help me someone as I am a Linux virgin/idiot! |
lardass (262) | ||
| 152120 | 2003-06-13 02:26:00 | You're gonna wanna type mc in the run window to bring up Midnight Commander you could also type konsole or xterm or a number of other things to get up a command interface, but stick with mc or konsole (My personal Pref.) for now! From there, you type: # su - to su to root (Super User), and dont forget the dash after the space Then type your password for root then type: # sndconfig and you should be away :-) Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 152121 | 2003-06-13 05:16:00 | But don't type a "#". If you have a "#" prompt, you are already the superuser ("root"). The normal "user" prompt ends in a "$" (for bash etc) or "%" (for csh). Try "dmesg", and see if the system actually found the sound card. If it's a SB clone, it should have been found. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 152122 | 2003-06-13 15:24:00 | How come i get a bad command after i type sndconfig in root? | Blue_face (1148) | ||
| 152123 | 2003-06-13 21:12:00 | if you typed su with a space then a dash after it, then it means that you havent insatled the package Take a look at this thread: pressf1.pcworld.co.nz |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 152124 | 2003-06-14 04:27:00 | The default path for root is restricted (for very good reasons. sndconfig is either not installed, or is not on the root path. Try "which sndconfig", to see its full path, and type that. Or install it (although I would think it would be installed as part of the normal system). | Graham L (2) | ||
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