Every hardware device connected to your computer requires drivers to function properly. This includes motherboard-integrated devices, such as graphics cards and sound cards. When a device stops ...

I have a laptop that is a clone of the Dell Inspirion 5000. I have set up four hard drives with various installitions of different distros. Two of them have Suse v8.0 with KDE upgraded to v3.1. All ...

The sound on your computer or laptop is controlled by a sound card and sound-card driver software. This sound card may be a standalone card installed in an expansion slot or an onboard card built into ...

Getting sound configured in Linux can be a nightmare. Rescue is on the way in the form of Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). Jim McIntyre is here to walk you through installing and configuring ...

The sound card drivers might not be updated. A recent Windows update might have reset the settings to default and Skype might not have permission to use the ...

When it comes to configuring that new notebook computer, you have a lot of options to choose from. Everything from the screen size, processor, graphics, memory and hard drive can be optimized to fit ...

Once I set up the Crystalizer and bumped up to 24 bit depth, I was ready to start experimenting. I started by using the supplied Creative headphones while listening to some music. I have a wide array ...