Yes, this was my big mistake. Sorry. How soon I've forgotten how things worked in 2.4 kernels. Now that my memory is somewhat refreshed, I seem to recall the advice for people wanting to use alsa was to configure their kernels to turn sound on, but to compile no devices via the kernel. I should think doing a typical compilation of alsa-driver, alsa-lib, and alsa-utils might be a worthy course of action, if alsa is the goal, and not just any source of sound. Chuck Hallenbeck writes: > My config file produces the same lack of results with the same grep > command, and yet my kernel is configured to use alsa, and alsa works > fine with my sb live. > > But I am a Slackware user, not a Debian user. > > Chuck > > > On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Glenn at home wrote: > > >I went to /boot and did: > >grep -i alsa config-2.4.27-speakup > >and nothing comes back. > >Does that in itself mean something useful? i.e., there is nothing > >supported > >to be reported? > >Glenn > > > >You need to discover whether the kernel you have was compiled to support > >alsa. Find the configuration file (probably in /boot) that matches your > >kernel and do: > > > >grep -i alsa [filename] > > > >It would seem this is the threshold question. > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (70% of Full) > "Things are in the saddle, and they ride mankind." Ralph Waldo Emerson > Personal site www.hhs48.com, Download site www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040 If Linux doesn't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
