Benjamin Sher wrote:
1) All of my devices seem to have been configured correctly, including my sound and video. That is, the video and sound work fine. However, I can't find a specific listing of my video card and sound card. Where precisely are they listed?
Try "lspci" or "lspci -v" or even "lspci -vv".
2) My first really critical issue has to do with mail. During Install MTA, I was asked which mail system I wanted. I was advised to select Smart? (can't remember the second part of the word) because I have a dynamic DHCP ADSL connection. So I selected this option but it's clearly wrong because I am toldI believe "dpkg-reconfigure exim4", or perhaps "eximconfig" is probably what you're looking for."Cannot connect to host localhost"("localhost" is what I chose"). How do I access the mail configuration utility and how do I correct my settings so I can receive and send mail?
But I think perhaps you have a networking/hostname configuration issue instead.
-- Kent