On Fri, 28 May 2004 08:49:15 -0500 "Jacob S." <stormspotter@6texans.net> wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2004 23:11:19 -0700 > Jake Johnson <jake@plutoid.com> wrote: <snip - lots of frustrations> > > Hi Jacob, > > Isn't it possible to check the differences with one of the three > > below: 1. lsmod > > 2. make oldconfig and check the differences > > 3. dmesg > > Yes, that's part of the problem. > > 1) I don't see anything different in lsmod output. > 2) I have always used my old config files when compiling new kernels. > I will be trying the Knoppix config file this morning. > 3) Nothing strange here, either. > > So, failing #2 this morning, I'm thinking it must be a change to one > of the modules, between kernels 2.4.20 and 2.4.23. Then it would look > like the same modules are loaded, but one of the modules would be > acting differently. Well, I was finally able to get sound working satisfactorily again. But, it wasn't with a new 2.4.25 or 2.4.26 kernel like I was originally trying. Nor is it using Alsa. I ended up going back to the 2.4.20 kernel I had been using. This put me back to the old esd frustrations that made me want to switch to Alsa. However, I found the upgraded KDE its running now (or has it for several versions and I didn't noticed it?) has an option to tell KDE to use ESD for sound. This gets rid of the sound conflict and lets my users use the window manager they prefer (I like iceWM, but they like KDE...) and still be able to listen to audio cds, play mp3s in xmms, have gaim play sounds when someone logs in, and hear the bell ring when they push the wrong button in their KDE game at the same time. That and it looks like the other upgrades that were applied to this machine have helped as well - like newer versions of esd, etc. To the person who had mentioned avoiding esd due to extra CPU load... I haven't noticed any appreciable difference between using esd or the plain oss driver standalone. However, this is a AMD 2600 w/ 512MB of ram. (Besides, very few things look like much of a cpu load when they're running next to KDE. :-) Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #12: Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste.
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