[newbie] Sound card configuration problems

[pablito]

This is just a gripe.  I know that Harddrake (or sounddrake) is just another
linux shell that conveniently runs existing teccho programs that most people
don't understand, but the various programs in my distribution of 7.1 don't
seem to match up, and when I try to upgrade them, they don't match up in
other ways, the upgrades call the little programs by different names and
stick them in different directories.  The upshot is that my sound card would
work if configured right, but doesn't.