Oh, and which desktop have you got? KDE or LXDE?

Open a terminal and type:

cat modules

hit Enter

and make sure your driver is listed.

If necessary, type:

q

hit Enter to quit.

Let me know please.

OK, if that's what you're typing, it's not going to work.

And probably in my rush earlier, I didn't make it as clear as I should have.

First, everything you do in Linux is case sensitive, so I don't know whether you're just emphasising what you've done, or if it's the command you used, but if you used capital letters, it won't work. I note also, you didn't put a space between the cd and the /etc

I'll go through the procedure again and try and explain it a little more clearly.

There are essentially three separate commands and the first two have to be individually executed by hitting the "Enter" key.

The first command stands for change directory (cd) you then need a space to separate a command from it's parameters. In this case, we want to change directory to /etc. So the whole command is:

cd /etc

and then hit the enter key.

Your prompt should now look something like this:

YourUserName@YourComputerName:/etc$

The $ sign means you are accessing the file as a normal user and therefore, can't do any major damage. If you accessed as root (another story), the $ would change to a # and you could potentially wreck the system. But that's for another day!

So to recap, if your log-on name were jon2 and the computer was called sunshine, your command line would look like this once you'd completed the first command:

jon2@sunshine:/etc$

That means, you are now in the /etc directory and the file we want to look at, lives there.

The "cat" command, is simply saying let me read the contents of the file. Once again, we have to separate the command and the parameter, so we use; cat, space, file. Therefore, as we want to look at the modules file, the command would look like this:

cat modules

Once again, we have to hit the "Enter" key, to execute the command, so go ahead and hit "Enter".

You should now see the contents of that file and what we need to know, is whether your sound driver is in there. Once you know the result, you can hit q (all on it's own and no enter this time), which will exit you out of cat and back to your command prompt.

I hope that's a whole lot clearer.