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This is the thread I am putting together to post all the little things I need help with.

I currently have Linux Mint.

My laptop Model is: Toshiba Satellite P100/P105

Uh...something I checked, I *think* it's all the shiny things inside my laptop...

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
0a:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
0a:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
0a:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
0a:04.3 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller

Okay, here is my list of problems:

1. Sound, there is none, not even with Headphones as some have said works.
Tried some kind of configure for it, but it did not work, (Though it WAS for an A200 series,)

2. Xbox Live, sharing the connection through Ethernet, (friend said he has a fix)

3. Some problems setting up the desktop cube, and having the mouse wheel click move it,

(Will most likely add more later...)

Can you list the results of lsmod too? It won't show the stuff compiled into the kernel, but then we'd have some idea of the modules that the system's using.

Uhh, how would I do that?

You did lspci above, right? It (more or less) lists the hardware devices detected on the system. lsmod is another system utility that works similarly, only it lists the currently loaded kernel modules. In order to use the hardware (like say your sound card), the driver must either be compiled into the kernel or loaded as a module. lsmod will tell us if it's a module. You can also check your kernel configuration, like I noted in a previous thread. If we don't see the module for it under lsmod and modprobe can't find it, we'll have to check the kernel.

Right...uhh...My friend actually did that... and I know not a bit of coding for Linux...

That's fine. We'll take everything step by step; it only seems complicated at first, everything we're going to do is going to distill down to pretty simple tasks.

I don't have a lot of familiarity with the tools in X. I preferring to do things from the command line, as I'm generally doing remote system administration via SSH, so that's the sort of approach I'm going to take, just to warn you.

Do you know how to get to your console or terminal (probably through a program like konsole or xterm)? Using a terminal from X is going to make copy and paste operations easier.

Once you're looking at a console, you'll see something like

Just type "lspci" (those are all lowercase letters) and press enter. Copy and paste the results in a reply here.

If you need a hand going through any of these steps (or any that follow), let me know; I might not always be clear, and I might make unwarranted assumptions -- I've been known to do both those things.

I got this:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
0a:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
0a:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
0a:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
0a:04.3 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller

Argh, I'm stupid. I put the wrong thing there, I had you run lspci again instead of lsmod. :P Well done, though. Do the same thing but with the right command this time. ;) Thanks.

I put in ismod, and it said command not found.

You ought to using a lowercase "L", not an "I". That ought to work a little better.

Unlike Windows, Linux is case-sensitive. Since nearly everything is lowercase, you can generally assume that whatever I ask you to do will be lowercase unless it's really obvious or I note it specifically.

Oh, it's an l....heheh

Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859_1 5120 0
nls_cp437 6784 0
vfat 14080 0
fat 54300 1 vfat
usb_storage 73024 0
ide_core 116804 1 usb_storage
libusual 18448 1 usb_storage
arc4 2944 2
ecb 4608 2
blkcipher 7556 1 ecb
ieee80211_crypt_wep 6272 1
af_packet 24840 4
i915 25856 2
drm 83348 3 i915
binfmt_misc 12936 1
rfcomm 42136 2
l2cap 26240 11 rfcomm
bluetooth 57060 4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev 10244 0
acpi_cpufreq 10568 1
cpufreq_userspace 5280 0
cpufreq_stats 7232 0
cpufreq_powersave 2688 0
cpufreq_ondemand 9612 1
freq_table 5792 3 acpi_cpufreq,cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
cpufreq_conservative 8072 0
container 5504 0
button 8976 0
ac 6148 0
video 18060 0
battery 11012 0
dock 10656 0
sbs 19592 0
sbp2 24072 0
parport_pc 37412 0
lp 12580 0
parport 37448 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
joydev 11328 0
snd_pcm_oss 44800 0
snd_mixer_oss 17920 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 81028 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 4996 0
snd_seq_oss 35328 0
snd_seq_midi 9728 0
snd_rawmidi 26112 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8576 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
pcmcia 41388 0
snd_seq 54256 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 24452 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9740 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
ipw3945 119840 1
sdhci 18828 0
psmouse 39952 0
snd 56580 9 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 8800 1 snd
tifm_7xx1 8832 0
tifm_core 11652 1 tifm_7xx1
ieee80211 35656 1 ipw3945
ieee80211_crypt 7040 2 ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211
mmc_core 28420 1 sdhci
yenta_socket 27532 1
rsrc_nonstatic 14080 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 40980 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
snd_page_alloc 11272 1 snd_pcm
iTCO_wdt 11940 0
iTCO_vendor_support 4868 1 iTCO_wdt
serio_raw 8068 0
shpchp 34580 0
intel_agp 25620 1
agpgart 35016 3 drm,intel_agp
pci_hotplug 32704 1 shpchp
evdev 11136 5
ext3 133896 1
jbd 60456 1 ext3
mbcache 9732 1 ext3
sg 36764 0
sr_mod 17828 0
cdrom 37536 1 sr_mod
sd_mod 30336 3
ata_generic 8452 0
usbhid 29536 0
hid 28928 1 usbhid
ata_piix 17540 2
libata 125168 2 ata_generic,ata_piix
scsi_mod 147084 6 usb_storage,sbp2,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
ohci1394 36528 0
ieee1394 96312 2 sbp2,ohci1394
e1000 126272 0
ehci_hcd 36492 0
uhci_hcd 26640 0
usbcore 138632 6 usb_storage,libusual,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
thermal 14344 0
processor 32072 2 acpi_cpufreq,thermal
fan 5764 0
capability 5896 0
commoncap 8320 1 capability
fuse 47124 3

Okay, now based on some of my hunting around, the module with the driver for your soundcard is snd_hda_intel. You can see that it's not on the list, so I'm going to guess that the reason your sound isn't working is because the driver isn't loaded. (This is still a guess because it could be compiled into the kernel, but if they were going to do that, they'd probably have compiled more of those modules in.)

We'll need to be root for the next part, I suspect. Type su and then enter your root password at the prompt. That'll switch your user to the root user. As long as you're root, you should have permission to do pretty much anything you want on the system, so be careful. To load the module, try

If it gives you an error about not being able to find the module, we're going to have to go to your kernel configuration and build it. Don't worry, that's not as tough as it sounds. If it succeeds, let me know, we'll move onto the next step.

Crap! I can't remember that password!

You may want to try, otherwise we've got to boot into single user mode and reset it. :P (Well, that or boot a liveCD, chroot to the system, and reset it; single user mode is probably going to be easier to deal with. ;))

I'll check back in an hour or so -- I'm leaving work and I've got an errand to run before I'm home. Good luck.

Single user mode?