Sound card

[Scott Mertens]

>Hi Scott,
>   The standard for Linux sound these days is Alsa. I'm not exactly
>sure what Gnome is attempting to do for you but it's probably not
>going to get the job done. Let's jsut go back to basics and get it
>handled.

>   Probably the most simple way to approach the problem is to let Alsa
>set it up for you. Try running alsaconf and see if it finds the card.
>If it does it will liekly set up modprobe.conf and you'll be almost
>ready to go. At that point you can try /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound
>start and see what happens.

I can find no man pages for this command (alsaconf) and can't figure out how to run.  Can you be more specific for me?

>   If it doesn't find the card then run lspci and let us know what the card is.

>Cheers,
>Mark