I remember an early Linux from around 1999, had to dig around xfconfig as well. The book I used as guide had scary all uppercase letters mentioning be extra car

I remember an early Linux from around 1999, had to dig around xfconfig as well. The book I used as guide had scary all uppercase letters mentioning be extra careful. And getting sound and modem working took me several days. Especially the WinModem caused troubles, as basically major parts of the modem functionality sat in the Windows modem driver, so getting it to work on Linux was not funny - but I got it working.