> I also heard of the reports of people using ALSA on this laptop, so I > installed alsa-drivers-0.9: `modprobe snd-intel8x0` succeeds, but xmms > gives an error: "oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): > No such device" > > Any ideas?
Maybe you forgot to enable the OSS compatibility when compiling the alsa drivers (or your modules.conf file is bad). Either fix this (to get the OSS compatibility) or get the XMMS ALSA output plugin. http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/alsa-xmms/ -- Jean Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/
