Creative SB AWE64 - how to activate

[Chris A Czerwinski]

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 11:48, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:00:49AM -0400, Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
> > 
> > I was able to find the following on my system
> > 
> > [root usr/sbin/sndconfig]#ls -al sndconfig
> >      sndconfig -> ../../sbin/sndconfig                       {a link}
> > 
> > [root usr/share/sndconfig]#ls -al
> >      sample2.au                                              {a file}
> >      sample.au                                               {a file}
> >      sample.midi                                             {a file}
> > 
> > [root sbin]# ls -al sndconfig
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       263776 Feb  7  2003 sndconfig
> > 
> > [root sbin]# sndconfig
> > bash: sndconfig: command not found
> > 
> > So HOW can I activate my sound card???
> > 
> > Chris Cz (still a Newbie)
> 
> How did you become root?  If you did "su", you got root's identity but
> not his environment, especially his PATH, so you can't execute stuff
> in /sbin or /usr/sbin without specifying the full path,
> e.g. /usr/sbin/sndconfig.  If you do "su -", you will get root's
> complete world including PATH, just as if you logged in as root to
> begin with.  "man su" for more info.
> 
> Cheers,

Bob,

Great to have asked this People Knowledge Base because it works.
Didn't know a "-" (dash) could make a difference, that did the trick.

Thanks, Chris (an intermediate newbie)