1. i cant figure out why the sound doesnt work for anything on linux nomater what i do!! Im begining to think its impossible!
2. There is some default admin password that u must put in to change the options for login manager but i cant figure out what that is to!! PLZ help!

Hi!

for problem 2: it's tje root-password. you had to choose one at the installation of your linux distro.

boby

Help us in helping you mate, what distro are you using,
what is the sound-card, and what are the things you've
tried?


Cheers,
Tink

Check to make sure that your soundcard is supported by your distro.Different distro's have varied hardware support,but for a general approach,try www.linuxhardware.org (what's your flavour?I understand you're a newbie,but it is common sense to mention basic info.We aren't psychic).
You probably forgot to issue a password for the root.This is the administrator's authentication.(beats me how the distro allowed you to proceed without assigning a root password)

And why is tink talking like an aussie?

Mate is older than Ozzies or Kiwis, mate ;)


Cheers,
Tink

I dont know my distro and i have no idea how to find out! And my sound card is a

lol for some reason it didnt put my whole message there! my sound card is a GeForce2 MX

Is this some kind of joke? I hope so...

Anyway, Geforce2 MX is a video card (aka VGA card), so that cannot be your sound card.

Go to the this site:

http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html

Next Click on "Go" and see if any of the Distributions mentioned (for example: Fedora Core, Mandrake etc...) match anything that you may think is your distribution.

vxc69

ok i dont know my sound card all i know is i use a iMac so sombody must know what sound card is in those. and my distro is a Debian. lol and i think posting those questions was pointless scince im getting nuttin out of it!

First of all, I have no experience with Mac's.

However, correct me if i'm wrong, if your iMac is a PC version then you should be able to do the following.

OK here's what you have to do:

1.) If you have any important data, make backups of them.

2.) Re-install debian - make sure you have the latest version, and I suggest you get Debian Sarge because the installer will auto-probe your hardware and install the necessary drivers. I'm not sure if you could install this on an iMac so try and find out if you can or else just do what you did earlier to install linux on your system.

3.) Be careful when you install linux and NOTE down the root password you enter when the installer asks for it.

4.)Now see if the sound works, if it still doesn't try the things you said you tried to get sound working but failed since you didn't know what the root password was.

5.)Once you've done all of this, come back here and post your results!

vxc69

p.s: I'm suspicious about your signature "IM Evil" - this is not a joke right?

You might also want to look at this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=204891


Hope this helps!

vxc69