help setting up sound

Folks, I'm having trouble figuring out how to configure my sound card (I'm running Sarge), due to the fact that I can't quite understand the specs of my motherboard. My computer's specs seem to indicate a sound module twice: • VIA KT600 + VT8237 Chipset • Integrated C-Media CMI9739A 6-channel a

x apps won't start as root under normal user

Folks, When I need to do file admin on my system, I often open up Konqueror as root while logged in as a normal user, or open up an X text editor to do the same, but for the last couple of days, any attempt to open up an application that depends on X returns this error: Xlib: connection to ":0.0"

new to debian

Greetings. I started using GNU/Linux two and a half years ago, and have been a (mostly) happy Mandrake user. I had always wanted to try Debian for the ease of apt-get, and now that I have broadband, I wanted to switch. I successfully installed Sarge on my machine over the weekend, and there are