Re: New Member Intro, Installation Help

["Veli-Pekka Tatila" <vtatila@mail.student.oulu.fi>]

Mario Lang wrote:
> Yes, that is actually expected behaviour.
> The installer should detect if your
> initial choice was a serial console, and configure the installed system 
> accordingly.
Ah nice, just as it should be.

> If you want to use ALSA, you should probably upgrade to kernel 2.6, since
I suppose I'll be doing that at some point. My Gentoo friend has been using 
2.6 with very little trouble for quite some time already.

> /dev/dsp is the device used for the OSS (legacy) sound support.  ALSA has
> different device names.
OH, ok. What would be a good OSS mixer on the command line?

> apt-cache search STRING
Works liek a charn, thx.

> * Change your /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the "sarge" distribution,
> * Run "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get dist-upgrade".
> * Now, install a 2.4 (or probably better a 2.6) kernel:
> kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.7 on 
> PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV.
Ah this is it in a knutshell, thanks for the advice again. I'l liekly try 
out that pretty soon if it means it will auto-detect the AWE card in the 
best case. it is nice to know Debian can use packages inter-changeably like 
this. I seem to remember RedHat had some trouble with it.

--
With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä (vtatila@mail.student.oulu.fi)
Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and more:
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mario Lang" <mlang@debian.org>
To: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: New Member Intro, Installation Help