Well there is a way to user your "Point & Click" methods to configure hardware. Open up DrakConf by any means you want. You can click the icon since you're a "Point 'n Clicker" or type DrakConf at a command prompt. Either way, once you have DrakConf up, open up HardDrake. HardDrake will off you two panels. On the left it will show you catagories of hardware. You can select the sound card option and open it up. If there's something in there, that means the system knows it's there. On the right it will give you some info about it and there's an option to run the Config tool. Run that. It should then try and play a sound. If you hear the sound, obviously your sound card words. No "Linux terminal commands Mumbo Jumbo." As a suggestion though. Stop looking at the console as "Linux terminal command Mumbo Jumbo." That's where the real power of Linux can be found. That's where you really start to dig into the system and become an expect. To start working with the shell, editing and keeping a 150 line .aliases file, and other things. Also a lot of the people that help you with problems on this list, are the people that love the console work, and some of us don't even bother X windows. We do everything from the console. Right down to play MP3s, chatting, and playing games! Wouldn't want to offend them by calling it "Mumbo Jumbo." :0) Hope ya found that helpful, and be kind to your penguin! tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real Men use Vi." * g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010427 09:01]: | Wow what a great feature for us Non Linux versed, Windows point and click | types. In response to the IP Flooding w/PMfirewall: | | Using LM 7.2, KDE, | I get to my message log by just clicking on the Home Icon at the bottom of | the screen, it brings up the file tree, | click on Root, | then click on Var, | then click on Log, | then click on messages Icon (the one with the pencil showing). | it displays the message log right on the screen. Scroll to the bottom to | see the latest entries. No more of that Linux terminal commands Mumbo | Jumbo, back to good ole point and click. | | Works great for us Windows refugees hanging out on Linux, nothing beats a | good ole Point and click. | | To Edit the log file | While it is displayed on the screen: | I Click on Edit at the top of the screen | Click on Open with Advanced Editor | and walah - i can edit the file. | | You can use any of the editors it lists but so far i only tried the Advance | Option. | | Cool, this Linux stuff is getting better all the time.... ;-0 | | Now if I could just get my sound system to work... via point and click...
