Alsaconf & halting a frozen laptop.

[PETER EASTHOPE <peasthope@shaw.ca>]

Folk,

To get the on-board sound device of an IBM NetVista 
working I must run alsaconf almost every time Lenny 
starts.

The first viewer of alsaconf mentions
"... testing/sid ... *udev* is predestined to load 
your driver."

Well, seeing that udev fails to load the driver in 
Lenny, I installed sid on an old Toshiba 4000CDS.  
"hwinfo  --sound" reports nothing and there is no 
sound.  I started alsaconf.  When almost finished, 
it reports "Loading driver...".  There the system 
freezes solid.  The power button has no effect.  

Is there any way to stop the beast other than by 
unplugging external power and removing the battery?

Thanks,           ... Peter E.





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