Re: Two Lenny problems
Stephen,
I get silence when trying to play a .wav file with aplay. No error
messages, just says "Playing WAVE 'Track1.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little
Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo" The sound card is, without doubt, older
than 2008. I've had the system for at least two years myself and Dell
support says the system shipped in 2004.
It is no honor to me to have stumped you. And Florian. Another mystery
with respect to Debian. I have been trying to supplant Windows since
getting Debian Potato, but there is some discrepancy with every
installation of Debian I have done that renders it less capable than
Windows. Some really weird ones, too. All I am willing to do right now
is to try another installation on a completely different system. I am not
comfortable with trying Squeeze, thank you. It seems futile after getting
sound out of Ubuntu 9.10, which has a good driver base and a recent
kernel. Do you foresee any gross problems with transferring the HD from
this system to another system and repeating the installation procedure? (I
do!! I just remembered that the HD in this system is SATA and all my other
systems are PATA.) I'm tired of wiping Windows installations for no good
reason. I had an older Dell system on which Sarge installed with no
problems whatsoever, and I was soooo pleased. Then the HD died and I
replaced it with another, reinstalled Sarge and could never get another
desktop. From just changing the HD? Give me a break, please. It is
obvious to me that I am going to have to dig into Debian just as I have
done with Windows and DOS. That is unfortunate because I have gotten to
the point with computers now that I just want them to work, I don't want
to fix them any more. I have been repairing systems for over twenty
years, and the fun is gone. Now it is just frustrating as hell to get new
technology that isn't any more capable, stable nor secure (in my
experience) than the old. Feces!! Many thanks, again.
Cecil
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