Joe Slaney

I downloaded the sound driver for my onboard card and the instruction tell me to do a bunch of stuff in the usr-src-linux-sound directory, but there is not such directory after SRC, to place the files. How do I install these asus drivers for my onboard sound card Cannot find any drivers for my aopen fm56-pm modem. any ideas. When I installed the system it used a driver called snd-cmpci as the default. What ever that is??? When I try to use the tray icon to set sound it tells me that there is no sound mixer or device. Very very new to this. If things do not get any easier will run back to WinXp with my tail between my legs. I spent years with DOS voodoo and don't know if I want the same headaches again. Linux has been the talk of the town so I though I would see what it is all about. Not good so far.

Using xp pro. Very Very new to linux. Just installed mandrake 10.1 community ED on a machine. The following problems occurred asus p4s533 board(on board sound) ati 9200se card 256 ram aopen fm-pm modem 1. could not set up my sound. followed direction to install sound driver but directory does not even exist under src 2. no drivers for moden. Question does the community addition allow connection to internet. Point me in some direction for good documentation to make sense of this system. Driver base is very limited.