The first step is finding out what type of sound card you have. Hopefully you remember, but if not, try looking at the physical card; there is usually a manufacturer's name printed somewhere on it.

In my last installment of this series I introduced a variety of GUI-based tools that can help you discover more about your system to help identify potentially troublesome components. This week we'll ...

Kernel modules are chunks of code that are loaded and unloaded into the kernel as needed, thus extending the functionality of the kernel without requiring a reboot. In fact, unless users inquire about ...