I got two problems. Problem 1 the sound is kind of sketchy... I thought the sound card got blown. But I heard my friend got sound on it again before we put Slackware on. Next I left him to install it while I went to class. I don't think he put a swap in. The computer is painfully slow and it can't even switch users because it looks like the ram got murdered or something.

My Questions are how to test / get a working sound card. I did do the alsamixer I think the command is and turn the volume levels up yet I don't hear anything.

As far as the swap partions I don't there is one but I am not sure how to look / check to where if he made it to small or not at all.

help

Hmmm ....

There are some people that thinks that the swap is not needed in these days because of the capacity of new RAM chips, so if you have too much RAM, maybe is not needed, but if you want to put a swap partiton you can use PartedMagic live cd to check both, your partitions (you can make your partitions with the tools in the live CD) and soundcard.

I would run 'alsaconf' for the sound card, and 'fdisk -l' for the swap. If you don't have a swap partition, you can just make a swap file instead, if you need one.

a few problems, problem 1 again roommate clearly hit the panic button and formatted my system to unbuntu. I was not mad because it was formatted yesterday to slackware and it did not really have anything. The same issue's are prevelant but it seems that the terminal on unbuntu is missing commands or something. alsamixer does change the volume levels alsaconf seems to do nothing it goes command not found. I am familiar with fdisk due to Slackware install but when I try to run it on the terminal.

Usage:
fdisk [options] <disk> change partition table
fdisk [options] -l <disk> list partition table(s)
fdisk -s <partition> give partition size(s) in blocks

Options:
-b <size> sector size (512, 1024, 2048 or 4096)
-c switch off DOS-compatible mode
-h print help
-u <size> give sizes in sectors instead of cylinders
-v print version
-C <number> specify the number of cylinders
-H <number> specify the number of heads
-S <number> specify the number of sectors per track

so then I was like okay... fdisk-s-l should give me what I want to see this did not happen. I want to go back to my slackware because i feel like unbuntu is fat and I would not be having these problems but at the same time some things are easier. I am waiting on till I can make a cd that has a more current version. The one I had on there was pretty old.

on a side note unrelated to my random problems why do people like xfce over kde I think I was always a kde fan do to me first trying slackware. Is it just looks?