First off, check to see if you in fact do have permission to open /dev/mixer. Are you root? Do you have administrative privileges?

Well. Go into a terminal and post the output of:
top -n 1 -b

(Use code tags for the output, please)

You might have a runaway process that's using 99% of your memory.

Give me the output of:

lsmod | grep snd

*cough* Unless you're ME, and your output of lsusb does nothing... *cough*

lspci
lsusb
Basically, use the command line to find the devices you have plugged in and running.

alex@alex-laptop:~$ uname -r
2.6.24-12-generic

Edit: Its a known bug in the developing hardy kernal. That's the price for the newest and greatest.

When I plug my wireless mouse, iPod, tablet, guitar processor, etc. into my laptop, they WORK, but they don't show up in lsusb. I just get a blank output.

Anyone have any idea as how to fix this?

As for "learning the basics", wireless configuration under Linux is about as basic as it'll get.

Maybe your RAID port is bad? Or your motherboard.

Well, there should be something like System > Preferences > Sound or something. I'm on Ubuntu, so I can't help you.

If you're new to Linux, I don't suggest Slackware.

Thank you for the link.

However, my error was fixed in the most recent release, which was released literally 30 minutes after I posted that.

I attempted running this game/toy/application called "Phun" (http://www.acc.umu.se/~emilk/) which is a 2-D physics simulator.

Whenever I try to run it, I get the error:...

It's not impossible, but pretty difficult when your notebook blatently says "MAX 3GB RAM MEMORY".

sudo apt-get remove alsa-base
sudo apt-get install alsa-base

or

Open Synaptics and reinstall it that way. (Much easier, IMO)

I'm just not used to things are above, say, like 4-8GB, seeing as I'm living in a desktop-computer environment, where computers cap at 3GB even.

I have no advice for you, but holy crap. 32GB RAM.

Well, i'm not that familiar with Fedora Core, personally, but maybe try reinstall alsa-base.

Or jackd if you're using JACK.

I have a VM of Ubuntu running on VMWare. Everything works, wireless, and all, except for the sound. I have a Realtek High Definition Audio card, which came onboard this laptop.

Any ideas for...

Linux on the iPod mini sucks.

Other than that, it's awesome. Joeprogrammer covered most of it. ipodlinux.org covers the rest.

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