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Another way to think about it is this, None of OUR current encryption schemes is safe,

Think about it, if its a quantum computer it can crack the stuff we use in... what, nanoseconds?

Thankfully its not in the USA or good ole King George B would be using it on everyone.

Debian has a few config tools you can use, if you know the name of the package usually you can run debconf-(name of package) to configure it. there is also a program you can install via apt-get called configure-debian (its ncurses based) that allows you to configure pretty much everything. some of your config can also be done in kcontrol assuming your running kde.

I have had issues with sound and here are some quick pointers you may try out to help.

take a small file, text or whatever and try cat'ing it into /dev/dsp

cat smallfile.txt > /dev/dsp

do you get sound? try this as a user and as root, if you get something as root and not as a user then its a perms problem.

run

ls -l /dev/ds*

you may find something like this.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0

crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 3 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp0

crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 19 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp1

crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 35 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp2

crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 51 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp3

this would indicate proper permissions, you might however find something more like this

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0

crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp0

crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp1

crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 35 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp2

crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 51 May 16 19:30 /dev/dsp3

which would mean sound only works for user root and user audio and your probably not logging in as either of them.

chmod 666 /dev/ds* should solve your problem.

also try sndconfig to get audio working and last but not least if none of this helps run lsmod to make sure your even loading the modules for audio.

HTH

Tnt

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