Sound and sound card
 

Hii...
I'd appreciate some help with installing my sound. I am running Mandrake 9.0 as a second OS to Win 98 SE on a Dell deskop 500 mhz with a TBS Montego Sound Card.
When I prompted Mandrake to install a sound card during installation, it asked whether I was running an ISA card. I said "yes" (the other path: "no" led nowhere). It responded by telling me to install it at the desktop by using the command "sndconfig". Guess what? I tried and the command was not found. The sound card works fine in Windows.
I'm real new at this--so even the available literature is alien. Could someone kindly help me with this?
Thanks very much in advance for your kind responses to my inquiry.
Thanks
Joe:confused:

mandrake newbie, here is where you can find the drivers for your sound card http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal/ I have the same sound card and it can be a real pain in the butt to get working , one thing is make sure you have theKernel headers installed first. so download the drivers from source forge, and untar the package then read the readme file. I myself have never had to change anything in the configuration file. This is how I go about it but I'm still a :newbie: at linux good luck. Mike :)

<blush> Sound and Sound Card
 

:( Well, it is time fo live up to my name...here's a very basic question from a guy who's been on Mandrake Linux one week, and on Windows for about 10 years.

I'm finding that there's a great deal of knowledge transfer between the 2 OS's, but there is also what the sociologist Thorstein Veblen called "trained incapacity." My training in Windows makes me want to do things that are not done on Linux. You suggested that I perform an action on the files I downloaded from the driver site (untar the package) and then read the readme file. I know where these things are, but I have not yet learned to "untar" (:D ). In Windows, I would just click and go...here I click and don't go.

Could you tell me how to do this, and/or find a really BASIC write-up that would take me from step 1 to step ...n.

Thanks so much for having been so helpful and supportive.

All the best!
Joe javascript:smilie(':newbie:')

Well, take a read http://linuxquestions.org/links/out_...a85ae241&ID=13
basically it is
tar xvfz filename.tar.gz
to uncompress the archive, you can also use a GUI app such as karchive or gnozip to do the same without fiddling with command line, I can see from the posts from ppl who are just hopped on a linux bandwagon it is real hard to understand linux command line power, but we are all glad that linux makes home in virtually any environment now.
In linux cook book (the link I provided) the section which deals with archives is
8.Managing files.