On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, dman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:22:23PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > | Worse! I think I had the wrong sound card driver. I've rebuilt the kernel > | sound, but now I get the dreaded "Can't Open /dev/dsp device". I haven't > | figured out why yet. > > I recommend building all the (potentially relevant) sound drivers as a > modules so that you can toy with them and try different settings > without going through a recompile and a reboot. If some specific > kernel features aren't absolutely essential then you could use a stock > kernel to figure out what you need for sound since the stock kernels > come with just about everything in module form.
Good idea. I still have the original potato kernel (since upgraded to woody/sid) so I tried it. After trying several other drivers I went full circle and convinced myself that I do have the right driver (i810_audio), which is the one that caused sawfish to hang when gnome window events had sound turned on. It does work somewhat: I can run "play english.au" and it sounds perfect but gives these messages: playing english.au sox: Sound card appears to only support singled word samples. Overriding format sox: Sound card appears to only support 2 channels. Overriding format If I try to play the same file with xanim, the sound is all choppy and fast (sounds like The Chipmunks). Maybe the i810 support isn't very good? ...RickM...
