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Checking Your Sound CardBefore you can listen to tunes, you have to make sure that your sound card isworking properly. After the configuration issues are dealt with, you can moveon to the fun stuff like listening to CDs and Internet radio and downloadingtunes. Many distributions ask you to test your sound as part of the installation orimmediate post-installation routine. Just in case you skipped this step, thefirst thing to do here is locate the sound-testing program (if one exists) to seewhether yours is working: Fedora:Choose Applications.System Settings.Soundcard Detection tosee whether the card is correctly detected and plays test sounds. Knoppix:From the main menu, choose KNOPPIX.Configure.SoundcardConfiguration to start the sound configuration utility. Linspire:From the main menu, choose Settings.Control Panel. Advanced Settings.Information.Sound to see whether the card is correctly detected. Mandrake:From the main menu, choose System.Configuration. Configure Your Desktop.Sound.Sound System.Hardware to seewhether the card is correctly detected. SuSE:From the main menu, choose Control Center.Sound & Multimedia. Sound System.Hardware to see what card has beenfound. Xandros:Choose Launch.Control Center.Hardware Information. Sound to see what sound card the operating system found. Looking into Your MixerIf the card seems to be detected properly, then a look at your mixer is thenext important step. Sometimes cards are picked up right, and yet the mixerfor some reason by default has things muted, or other strange things are set. To find the mixer: Fedora:Choose Applications.Sound & Video.Volume Control. Knoppix:From the main menu, choose Multimedia.KMix. Linspire:From the main menu, choose Programs.Audio & MP3. Volume. 346Part IV:Getting Things Done