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Mandrake:From the main menu, choose Multimedia.Sound.KMix. SuSE:From the main menu, choose Multimedia.Volume Control. Youmay find other programs useful in this menu as well. Xandros:Choose Launch.Applications.Multimedia.Sound Mixer. Mixer terms of interest include the following: Lock:When two slider bars appear for a setting, this option just makessure that they re always level with one another. Mute:No sound comes from this section. PCM:Control the volume for audio files as opposed to, say, CDs. Volume:Control the overall volume. Finally, many of the distributions have a little volume control icon on thepanel. If everything else looks right but you get no sound, click it and makesure that it hasn t been pulled down to the bottom. Investigating Troublesome Sound IssuesIf your sound isn t working, your card may not be supported. The followingstrategies can help you to track down a potential solution: Proceed to the manufacturer s Web site and locate the page for the spe- cific card that you have. This page often has a link to technical support, drivers, and downloads. If it does, follow these links and see whether adriver(the piece of software that tells your operating system how to talkto each piece of hardware) is available for your card in Linux. If driversare listed by kernel version the version of the Linux core that you reusing type uname -rto see your version number and then choosethe closest driver that you can. You also might have to try the centraltech support page on that site if there isn t one dedicated to the hard- ware in question. Search on www.google.comfor the make and model of your card, plusthe word Linux.For example, I might search forYamaha YMF-744B LinuxYou may be lucky enough to find a nice, simple solution to your problem. Or, you may find one that requires you to have a degree in Geekspeak. Ifso, see the Web sites that I mention in Chapter 1 for where to go for helpthat you can understand. 347Chapter 18: Multimedia Wow!