"Veli-Pekka Tatila" <vtatila@mail.student.oulu.fi> writes: > Amazingly enough the serial console works great even after instalation, no > need to mess around with any config files. Yes, that is actually expected behaviour. The installer should detect if your initial choice was a serial console, and configure the installed system accordingly. Everything else should be considered a bug. > I'm still not sure if my ISA sound card, namely Sound Blaster AWE32, > was auto-detected and set up during the installation or not. How do I > find this out and can I use alsamixer to unmute channels and tweak the > gain? If you want to use ALSA, you should probably upgrade to kernel 2.6, since that already includes ALSA modules by default. > I checked that /dev/dsp exists as do dsp1, dsp2 and dsp3 oddly > enough. /dev/dsp is the device used for the OSS (legacy) sound support. ALSA has different device names. > Also, how do I search by package name or description in apt-get > without actually installing a package? apt-cache search STRING and apt-cache show PACKAGE-NAME (see man apt-cache) > Though this is not so urgent a problem, I think I'd like to move onto > using the 2.4 or even the 2.6 kernel at some point because of better > performance. I won't be posting about kernels here much as this is an > accessibility list, but would appreciate pointers to nice howtoes. I > wonder if I can get pre-compiled kernel binaries with apt-get. Yes, you can get a precompiled 2.4 or 2.6 kernel. To achieve this, I'd suggest the following course of action: * Change your /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the "sarge" distribution, instead of the (probably) currently configured "stable" or "woody". Sarge is soon going to be released as the next stable version of Debian, and contains much more up-to-date packages, like 2.6 pre-compiled kernels. * Run "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get dist-upgrade". This should bring all the installed packages up-to-date with the versions currently distributed with the "sarge" distribution. * Now, install a 2.4 (or probably better a 2.6) kernel: You probably want to choose from one of the following packages: kernel-image-2.4.26-1-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.26 on 386. kernel-image-2.4.26-1-586tsc - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.26 on Pentium-Classic. kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.26 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV. kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.26 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP. kernel-image-2.4.26-1-k6 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.26 on AMD K6/K6-II/K6-III. kernel-image-2.4.26-1-k7 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.26 on AMD K7. kernel-image-2.4.26-1-k7-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.26 on AMD K7 SMP. kernel-image-2.4.26-speakup - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.26-speakup kernel-image-2.6.7-1-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.7 on 386. kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.7 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV. kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.7 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP. kernel-image-2.6.7-1-k7 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.7 on AMD K7. kernel-image-2.6.7-1-k7-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.7 on AMD K7 SMP. > Umm howabout catting ASCIi text to /dev/dsps does that produce noise similar > to playing back Windows binaries as raw PCM? Yes, it should. -- CYa, Mario
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