Last Monday 02 August 2004 15:34, Laura Conrad was like: > I upgraded my kernel from 2.4.18 to 2.4.26, and now I can't play > sounds. Any time I try, the program just hangs until I ^C out of it. > No messages appear in /var/log/messages, or on the console. > > I have a Debian unstable system with an SBLive soundcard. (There's > also a sound system on the motherboard, but that never confused it > before.) > > I have in the past managed to run Alsa, but getting it installed has > never been fun, so since I'm only doing fairly simple-minded things > like playing MIDI and having card sounds on my solitaire game, I've > been just running OSS. > > I can't see anything wrong with the permissions on the /dev files, or > with the list of modules that's being loaded. I just uploaded the > latest version of that kernel-image, and the July 22 version has the > same problem as the May 1 version. > > Does anyone have any ideas about what to try next? Get the 2.4.25-multimedia kernel from AGNULA add this to your sources list: deb http://apt.agnula.org/demudi testing main local extra read this: http://www.agnula.org/download/demudi/1.2.0-FAQ/ and http://wiki.agnula.org for further advice It's by far the fastest way to get a working audio system with Debian. cheers tim hall
