nforce sound issues and new user Linux questions

[ulrich steffens]

hi john,
while i'm considering myself 'completely clueless' i'll try to help :)
as far as i know theres no need to install the nvidia-drivers cause
sound is handled by the 'intel8x0'-module. to see if this (kernel)module
is loaded, open a terminal and type 'lsmod'. this shows ALL modules
currently loaded by the kernel. have a look at the modules that begin
with 'snd_'. is 'snd_intel8x0' loaded?
if its not there, load the module with 'sudo modprobe snd-intel8x0'.
to load it automatically:'sudo gedit /etc/modules'
add 'snd-intel8x0' at the end of the file.
another guess would be: are you in the audio-group?
open a terminal an type 'sudo gedit /etc/group'
find the line with 'audio:x:29:XXXX' where XXXX should be your username.
if your username isnt there, add it.
(sudo means switching to 'godmode'. if it asks for a password, enter
your own. and be careful while sudoing, cause you CAN hose things! :)
the scsi-thing is maybe at the same level to find.
type 'lspci' to give us a clue about your hardware.

and theres not one page collecting ALL information...
but good points to start are:
http://www.ubuntuguide.org/
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/

ulrich

On Do, 2005-03-03 at 11:32 -0800, John Ughrin wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> =====
> ==
> "Faith without works is nothing,
>  works without faith is still...ah...pretty good."
> Jon Stewart, _The Daily Show_ 1/18/2005
> 
> 
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