Any other suggestions?

Micah DesJardins wrote:
> I turned off Plug and Play support in my BIOS and it vastly
 > improved Red Hat's ability to find and address my devices.

Thanks, Micah.  I think my settings are in line with
your suggestion.  But no luck.

I only received one answer to this question.
Does anyone else have a suggestion as to what way
I should go to get these devices working?
Again, they *are* being "recognized", that is,
I am seeing messages that mention that they are
present, but they just don't work.

For example, with that sound card message, my
user-ID has full read-write permissions and yet
I get that permission error.  And I see the
printer described, but can't make it the
active printer.  And if the system says it has
done a print for me, where did it go if not
to the printer?

My original post:
> Red Hat 8.0 identifies my sound card but
> can't open /dev/dsp* (I forget exactly
> which dsp).  My user-id has sole access,
> with full read/write permissions.
>
> My printer is also recognized, but won't
> activate.  I get a generic printer with
> some apps, but any print gets lost in the
> bit bucket.
>