Re: two intractable problems
Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
On the Toshiba Tecra 780 laptop, I can't get sound with any modern
distro. Not Debian, not Redhat 9, not SuSE 8.2. SuSE 7.3 does it, but
then no Gnome 2 and no gnomemeeting. I had a look at the modules loaded
in SuSE 7.3/alsa 0.5, and I've built alsa 0.9 and alsa 0.5 in Debian but
no joy. The alsa configuration program in debconf builds the
configuration, but it doesn't then work. It's a Tecra 780 with a Yamaha
OPL3-SA2 sound card - does anyone know how to make one of those work?
Obvious question: Are you sure they're not working, and that the output
is not simply muted, which seems to be the default for some esoteric reason?
The other problem is much weirder. The desktop machine kills the cable
modem connection when it's powered up. Even when there's no ethernet
cable connecting it to the modem.
Didn't used to. It's worked for almost 2 years on that setup, and now
it's killing it. Windows or Linux. Pulling the machine into another
room and powering it up there seems not to kill the modem, so power is
all I can think of, but that's ridiculously inconvenient in his house -
the cable goes into the computer room. Has anyone seen such behavior?
Possibilities:
* the computer is putting out RF that's interfering with the modem.
* the computer's power supply has become unstable and is causing
brown-outs in the powerline to the modem.
* another device has recently been added to the room, and the power
draw of both this new device and the computer is causing problems with
the modem.
* You mention a bttv camera; is this also a TV tuner card, and if so,
is your cable line plugged into it, possibly putting noise on the cable?
* Does the computer have any color light tubes or other flourescent
lights near/attached?
/Kent
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