Hi, I am a complete noob at linux and need some assistance.
I was given a thinkpad with debian woody installed (no billyware). It boots lovely except for the audio. I get this message at logon: error while initialising sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (permission denied) the sound server will continue, using the null output lines How do I correct this? (my installation won't let me log into an xwindows environment as root, I have to do it through a terminal so some easy instructions would be very welcome) also how do I browse to my cd rom? It doesn't appear in konquerer and I don't remember seing it mounted at boot. Could someone point me to some easy to understand docs about the file system, maybe with a graphical representation, as it seems so different to billyware. I am trying to find java so I can get my browsers to run applets (I use mozilla and konq). Finally (for now) is there a reason why I can't copy/paste between applications? (ie. between advanced editor and mozilla news composer?) Many thanks for your help and I hope I don't fill up your newsgroup with too many lame questions. Tendril
