nforce sound issues and new user Linux questions

[John Ughrin]

Hi I'm new to linux and really in the dark here.

I've installed Warty on an Athlon 950 Mhz running in a
K7N420 motherboard with the Nforce2 chipset from
nvidia.

I have no sound. I'm not, AFAIK, getting any error
messages, but no sound.

I cannot seem to install the drivers from Nvidia. At
first it complained about not finding the kernel
source trees. I *think* I found those and installed
them with Synaptic. Then it complained about not
knowing what compiler  version I had used to compile
the kernel. It said that the environment variable CC:
wasn't set.

Any help would be appreciated. If you need more
information, you'll probably also have to explain to
me how to find it. I know the sound _can_ work under
linux. It works using the knoppix CD that came with
_Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death
Goodbye!_.

On another, broader note. Can anyone recommend a site
or book that actually _explains_ how to do things in
linux? I'm getting very frustrated reading forum after
forum of linux 'help' where the goal seems to be to
make the answers as cryptic as possible. I'm not
talking about using the word processor, I'm talking
about drivers and the like. I've also got a scsi card
that warty can't seem to deal with. But its only
sporting a Zip disk and its low on my priorities list.
I'd like to get past using Windows entirely, but so
far my linux experiencehas been fairly 'unfriendly'.
Otherwise like Ubuntu, though.



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 works without faith is still...ah...pretty good."
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