Re: sound card problem

James Miller
2005-04-21T13:46:25Z

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Eric Bambach wrote:

> What Ray means is to type in these commands at a console. In KDE you can look
> for the program konsole. This will give you a command console similiar to a
> DOS command prompt (But infinitely more powerful ;). You have to do these as
> the root user. That means when you open the (c/k)onsole, you must type 'su'
> and it will ask you for the root password that you specified at install time.
> If you lack konsole, all distributions will let you push CTRL-ALT-F1 and you
> will get a raw login console. Username root and your password will let you
> then type in the commands Ray Specified.
> Furthermore, lacking konsole, you can try the program 'xterm' for the same
> results. Remeber to type these as the root user or you lack enough
> permissions to get things done!

To clarify yet further, "console" means something very similar to what
Windows users call a "DOS box." In other words, under start>programs
>accessories on a Windows system there will be an item "C:\ prompt" or
something like that (location of the program's shortcut varies according
to Windows version). When you click that item, a window opens up with a
black background and a command prompt like C:\_<blinking cursor here where
you can type some DOS command like "dir">. In Linux, a "console" or
"xterm" works very similarly. It is a place to type commands to get info
about the system (as in Ray's suggestion), run or compile programs and
perform other user or administrative functions.

James