[linux-audio-user] Newbie Linux user Struggling with MIDI

[PhilJackson]

Edward A Young wrote:

> I said locate. Mandriva left it there on my system. If he did not 
> locate it on his system. I ran:   locate alsaconf                My 
> system found it because I first ran:      updatedb    
> Christoph Eckert wrote:
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>>> Nearest thing there is alsactl
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>> That's not what you need. You need alsaconf.
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>> Best regards
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>>    ce
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Ok-I usually just sudo su.  At one point I may have actually set a root 
password, unfortunately I canot find it anywhere.  Is there a command I 
can run  after logging in  with sudo  su that will give me that "real" 
root password?

thanks,

Phil J