How To Ask Questons The Smart Way

[blaze]

Here is a link to a How To... with a good description of what to think about when asking for help. It is quite a heavy read, but it is really good. Enjoy 

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

[biffster]

+1 to this

At a minimum please tell us the version you are running and sub-flavor. (EG wattOS R8 LXDE32, etc)

as there are components within each that have some different tools, etc.

also if its hardware, an output from lspci or lsusb , etc...will just save all time.