Re: problem with sound

[Philipp Schulte <p.schulte@matrix.uni-duisburg.de>]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 01:51:27PM +0100, c-3 wrote: 

> > I think I wasn't too harsh or something.
> > But rebooting in order to see if the sound card was detected at
> > boot-time is about the most dumb reason to reboot I can think of.
> > Phil
> 
> Yes, it is, when you know where to get the information elsewere. 
> But right now I'm still having the problem not to know where I can 
> get which information.

Logfiles are stored in /var/log like /var/log/syslog or
/var/log/messages
Useful information about your hardware is "stored" (not really stored)
in /proc. For example $/sbin/lspci -v reads from /proc/bus/pci and
displays information about you PCI-devices.
Phil