On Sunday 13 January 2002 11:18 pm, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed 8.1 easily except for the fact that i can't get any sound.
>
> I went to control center/hardware and then the system blacks out...

the system doesn't actually black out, it throws you into a virtual console 
for some reason, press control-alt-F7, that will take you back into X and you 
will see harddrake and be able to configure your soundcard

mark

and i
> have to reboot. I am a complete newbie with regard to Linux, having only
> used windows 3.1,95/8 and 2000 up to this point, and so I have no clue as
> to what I should do.
> My sound card is a soundblaster pci128.
> I checked the bios to make sure pnp os was disabled and I did the sndconfig
> thing. sndconfig told me that my soundblaster
> pci128 sound card was an ensoniq/ES1370 Ausio PCI card and that it wasn't
> currently supported. I was given no other options like a tree to select my
> card from... But, Is this so, as my sound card is at least 4 years old i
> think?? I am beginning to think I don't have the wits to deal with this.
> Any assistance would be great.
> respectfully,
> thmswldmn
>
>
>
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