Creative SB AWE64 - how to activate
Chris A Czerwinski
chrisczerwinski at cogeco.ca
Thu Sep 30 14:10:46 UTC 2004
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)
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