On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: > Andor Demarteau wrote: > > devicefiles are present yes, this doesn't mena that there are devices > > attached to the files. > Ah, I see. I know that dev/dsp is a symbolik link but that's about it. I'm > bit unsure as to where it should actually be pointing at. Mandrake 9.2 used > to lose the sound card on another machine occasionally if I had been in > Windows. on my systems it points to /dev/dsp0
> > isa-cards are tricky, specially the isapnp once *which AFAIK your card > > is). > Urgh yes, AWE32 is a physically very long ISA card. Would newer kernels or > the textmode Redhat sound configuration tools help? dunno, I don't know Redhat tools too well. isapnptools may help or maybe the siapnp drivers in the 2.4.x kernels (probably ion 2.6 as well). > > dpkg -l <pattern> searches on package-name > Howabout > apt-cache search pattern > I used that. but it tends to be slow if I say something like: > apt-cache search .*gnome.* I think apt-cahce is even better, never knew it existed :) probably took long cuase there are loads of packages with the word gnome in their namaes/dscription > > yes you can. But I find compilign them myself better mostly. > That's what people are telling me, hehe. I'd like to get things done quickly > and most access thingies up and running painlessly at this point, worrying > about performance and disk space usage much much later. Besides, I've never > compiled a kernel in my life, though I have seen it being done and it was > not awfully difficult. I know I need to take that step at some point but I > would not want to tackle it just yet.I had to do that within a week after my debian system was installed for me :) took me 3 hours to get it configured. It's well worth the effort. > How does it know the right sampling rate and isn't there some header that > sounds like garbage? well I haven't seen any .au files which were high quality and all that I ever found played nicely over /dev/audio > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn: do ask ;) ----------- chairman Stichting Studiereizen STORM www: http://www.stistusto.nl vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003
