Re: New Member Intro, Installation Help
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote:
> Andor Demarteau wrote:
> > devicefiles are present yes, this doesn't mena that there are devices
> > attached to the files.
> Ah, I see. I know that dev/dsp is a symbolik link but that's about it. I'm
> bit unsure as to where it should actually be pointing at. Mandrake 9.2 used
> to lose the sound card on another machine occasionally if I had been in
> Windows.
on my systems it points to /dev/dsp0
> > isa-cards are tricky, specially the isapnp once *which AFAIK your card
> > is).
> Urgh yes, AWE32 is a physically very long ISA card. Would newer kernels or
> the textmode Redhat sound configuration tools help?
dunno, I don't know Redhat tools too well.
isapnptools may help or maybe the siapnp drivers in the 2.4.x kernels
(probably ion 2.6 as well).
> > dpkg -l <pattern> searches on package-name
> Howabout
> apt-cache search pattern
> I used that. but it tends to be slow if I say something like:
> apt-cache search .*gnome.*
I think apt-cahce is even better, never knew it existed :)
probably took long cuase there are loads of packages with the word gnome
in their namaes/dscription
> > yes you can. But I find compilign them myself better mostly.
> That's what people are telling me, hehe. I'd like to get things done quickly
> and most access thingies up and running painlessly at this point, worrying
> about performance and disk space usage much much later. Besides, I've never
> compiled a kernel in my life, though I have seen it being done and it was
> not awfully difficult. I know I need to take that step at some point but I
> would not want to tackle it just yet.I had to do that within a week
after my debian system was installed for me :)
took me 3 hours to get it configured. It's well worth the effort.
> How does it know the right sampling rate and isn't there some header that
> sounds like garbage?
well I haven't seen any .au files which were high quality and all that I
ever found played nicely over /dev/audio
>
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