Package: debian-installer Severity: normal This report is about etch installer beta 2. I start by admitting that it may not be an installer problem at all; it may be that sound/KDE does not work at all in current "sid". In that case I hope you installer guys can redirect me - it could be a kernel problem, a udev problem, or a KDE problem.
I have a PC - a few years old - with an ASRock K7S8X mother board with built-in Intel 810 sound. Sound has worked fine with KDE in a sarge installation on this PC. But not now, with linux-image-2.6.16-1-686 version 2.6.16-5, udev version 0.088-2, and KDE at 3.5.2. The installer doesn't ask or otherwise do anything about sound. But when KDE is started, (with sound "hardware" configured to "autodetect"), the message is that /dev/dsp does not exist. And that is correct - it doesn't. The interesting thing is that the kernel has loaded a bunch of sound modules: % lsmod | grep snd snd_intel8x0 29436 0 snd_ac97_codec 82784 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_bus 2048 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm 74408 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 20292 1 snd_pcm snd 46080 4 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 8672 2 i810_audio,snd snd_page_alloc 9800 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm So it is not that the kernel/udev hasn't recognized the sound hardware, or has recognized it wrongly. The problem is somewhere else, probably some missing software or missing configuration. Or perhaps just missing documentation. I searched the installer FAQ, the installer manual and the HOWTOs on sound. No joy. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]