From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Miller Subject: Re: sound card problem Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:46:25 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: References: <00a701c54610$9932c6f0$4a071aac@autocadmachine1> <426709C9.6090507@comarre.com> <014d01c54627$2d1de550$4a071aac@autocadmachine1> <200504202322.51831.eric@cisu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200504202322.51831.eric@cisu.net> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie 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:\_. 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs