--- Brian Saghy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps its because you're using OSS that you have > it working. For > those of us who are using Sid or some kernel 2.6, > alsa's really the only > way to go, and its not fully mature yet, in my > opinion.
I'm running sid too with 2.6.5, but sound seems so fine for me ( even not with alsa ). All I need is just chmod the mixer,modprobe the device and add my user into sound group. But I'm not that lucky in display stuff ( I'd googled for about a month just to find how to make my i845G onboard works...) > I was having issues with the old oss driver being >loaded too, and > my only solution > was to rename it so that it wouldn't be loaded. I > even removed > discover, even though I had audio discovery > disabled. Now, I can't get > my mixer to work or appear under /dev. So, it'll > probably require some > more work. Hopefully one day this will all be > automated and painless. I > don't think that I've ever had a distrobution > install sound correctly > out-of-the-box first try. Granted, I'm no linux > guru, but I'm not a > newbie either and I don't feel I should have to > spend so much time > reading documentation and newsgroups to have to > figure out how to get a > relatively old technology working correctly. I think this is the classic but still up to date common problem in Linux. Almost all of us must become a surgeon if we want all the stuff we've got works nice in Linux. I wonder when this would end ... ( hope the happy ending ) > -Brian > > Stephen Patterson wrote: > > What with all the sound card posts flying round > recently, it doesn;t > > seem like anyone's getting audio, and here I am > with 2 systems working > > perfectly with OSS (no udev/devs and none of that > alsa malarky).g > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]