Hi,
I installed RH 8.0. It didn't detect my sound card which is a SB16. After installation I ran sndconfig, had no such fil or command. So I installed it since it wan't installed and it gave me the same error when I installed it. I ran the command at root. What gives? Thanks. :cry:
Basically, when you first login, login as root instead of your normal user. I think you'll have access to sndconfig that way. By default, you have 6 teletype terminals (ttys) to work with. You can access them with ctrl+alt+F1 through ctrl+alt+F6. You can also switch back and forth through them. When you first load your machine, it will be set to the first tty. You can login as your normal user here. Then type ctrl+alt+F2 and login as root in the 2nd tty. I'm almost postive sndconfig will work for you.
Hi cscgal,
Once I'm in tty, how can I boot to the desktop from there? I tried sndconfig from there and it didn't work so I cd /sbin then ./sndconfig and it worked....Joe:lol:
which means that when you become root you'll inherit the root environment (including all environment variables such as the path, and so on). This makes it much easier to run programs such as sndconfig or ifconfig, for example.
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