Uggh, I missed that bit in Malcolm's post. Yes, If you are using a 2.4 kernel you definitely should be considering an upgrade. There is a lot of magic in the newer 2.6.x kernel and associated system tools that are going to make your life easier in this regard.
Also not really wanting to start a distro war (and I cut my teeth on SLS and then Slackware 1.0 back around 1992/93), but you might want to choose something other Slackware if you are an inexperienced user. <http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity> really puts Slackware as being outside the mainstream. You are much more likely to get useful support if choose from the top 10 in that list. (And yes, the street cred that in particular Gentoo seems to have, but I still would consider that as non mainstream). Of course there are other criteria than popularity for choosing a distro, but it should be a major consideration for novices). Regards, Martin martinvisse...@gmail.com On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Henare Degan <henare.de...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:04, Martin Visser <martinvisse...@gmail.com> wrote: >> For most Linux distros and sound cards these days it should "just >> work" so I imagine you must have something special. > > I'd say the "something special" might be the 2.4 kernel not having the > drivers for the newer audio hardware? Slackware 11 can get 2.6 but > maybe it's time to try 12 (with default 2.6 kernel). > > Cheers, > > h > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
