[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Dear All:
>
> Newbie with a capital "N" here. I just installed Linux for the first
> time a couple of days ago. So far everything appears to this
> uninitiated person to be OK (e.g. connecting to the Internet), but I
> can't for the life of me get the sound card to work. Or, I should say
> that I can get the system bell to work using the "Test" button in the
> Control Center, however I can't for example get the CD Player to
> produce any sound. I have a Quantex TS30H1 laptop with A PII 266 CPU,
> 80MB RAM and a NeoMagic 128XD video card. Problem is I can't even see
> what kind of sound card I have as HardDarke doesn't see it.
> Unfortunately Qunatex is of no help as they went down in flames last
> year. None of the doumentation for the laptop says anything beyond
> "16-bit wavetable sound." Any ideas or advice as to how to troubleshoot
> this issue would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> rob
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Welcome!!
As root, try running "soundcfg" or "sndconfig" (w/o quotes, of course). See what that
turns up. Are you dual booting with windoze? If so, in windows, what can you find
out about the soundcard (or on board chip...)
Mike
--
"Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing, and
dreadful idolatry took place there."
--Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century
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