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Hello Free World!
I am quite new to all of the Linux stuff but learning fast, so don't be scared to respond in way's I 'might not understand', I'll figure it out ;-). I have recently made my own Debian Kernel (now running nice 'n smooth...) and decided to go with ALSA - I used the original 2.2.20_compact kernel which was on the installation diskette (nope, I have no CD-burning equipement) and that didn't include sound support, so I made this kernel. But now there are still no system-sounds! If I use one of my other 2.4.19 kernels (I have made 23 in two months before I was satisfied) with no ALSA but with the old standard sound support (deprecated since 2.6.6 but not yet available in 'debianized' version) it does work! I can play my music though through ALSA with the nice Alsaplayer (using the alsa-module). I figured that Gnome wants EsounD as it's sound system so I installed libesd-alsa0 and tern on the sound-server in the configuration of Gnome to be able to hear 'them silly system-sounds'... but they don't do what they should!
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When I fire up the sound-monitor applet it says esd is inactive so I take my terminal and go "ESD", resulting in loads of variants of: Couldn't open any alsa card! Last card tried was 0 Error openin card 0: Sound protocol is not compatible Audio device open for 44.1KHz, stereo, 16bit failed Trying 44.1KHz, 8bit stereo. and finally: Couldn't open any alsa card! Last card tried was 0 Error openin card 0: Sound protocol is not compatible Sound device inadequate for Esound. Fatal. So I guess there is some heavy mis-comunication going on between alsa and esd... The easiest solution I can think of is just to forget ESD and set things up for use purely with alsa. It must be possible since the reason I chose Gnome instead of KDE was that Gnome is Free, and KDE is not. I only don't know how it should be done... please respond by mail to j.witteveen@mail.ru in English or Dutch (the reason for me to have a .ru e-mail adres is just: it is free, as in: free screwdrivers) Kind regards, Jouke Witteveen --- $cd /pub $more beer |