>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Mark> OK - just a second. I'm a bit confused. Even though all the stuff
Mark> above it working, do you have sound?
Yes. I haven't tried the recording yet, but Timidity plays MIDI files
fine.
Mark> Also, are you running Debian or Knoppix? (Not that it matters)
Knoppix is a variety of Debian. What happened was that the disk my
root partition was on got flaky, so I put in a new disk and booted
from the Knoppix disk, and ran knoppix-installer. Then I put in the
Sid lines in the apt sources.list file and ran apt-get update. I had
done this once before at work, and it was quite good at producing a
working system from nothing really fast. It is unfortunately less
good at producing a system just like the Debian system you had running
and doing a lot of complicated things before. But I don't know what
is good at doing that.
Mark> And as for pysol, I think it's using OSS emulation. Have you enabled
Mark> that? It may require a modprobe. snd_pcm_oss possibly? snd_mixer_oss?
Mark> snd_oss? Not sure...
I have the oss emulation working (on 2.6), but more googling reveals that pysol
sound doesn't work yet on 2.6. The error is different from the one I
get, but it doesn't look like that problem is worth spending time on.
And the pydance problem is probably a pydance packaging bug. I have
written the pydance list.
Thanks to everyone who helped. I think I now have a kosher 2.6 alsa
system. Sometime I should figure out either how to get a stock debian
kernel to run on my ext3 partition or how to compile a custom kernel
with ext3 compiled in. But now that I have sound basically working, I
think those problems can wait.
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