Okay, I have done as much as I can. I love Debian, but its silence is getting to me.
I have an Audigy 2 (Creative) sound card, and need ALSA to make the sound work. I am running a 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel with absolutely no modifications yet. When I boot to KDE, I get the following message: Sound server informational message: Error while initialize the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. I read all that I can read about installing ALSA, but all I can find requires 1. Kernel headers -- no big deal, apt-get did that for me 2. Kernel source -- ?what?? there ISN'T a kernel source for 2.4.18-bf2.4, at least via apt-get there isn't. I do not trust dselect to do this for me (it's down awful things before). Next option is to compile and install a new kernel. At this point, that is like throwing poop in my face. I spent all weekend trying to figure out how to do that; I finally got a kernel installed and configured (I thought), then rebooted and NOTHING worked; I did something wrong, God knows what (skipped a step? I don't know) and none of the modules were present any more. I couldn't even get network support to look up what in the hell I did wrong. The old kernel wouldn't install (even editing lilo.conf wouldn't show it up), so I had to reinstall. I have most of what I want from linux -- open office, I can figure out how to get the video card working (9800 pro, but I can only get 2D accel going, which is really all of what I need and most of what I want anyway); heck, I even got my USB printer working without resorting to the newsgroups. Thus my exasperated, researched, "done my homework" question: How do I get alsa working using my current kernel? Surely there is someone out there that has a working version with my same kernel; I assume I need the kernel source for 2.4.18-bf2.4? Where can I even get it? I can post my apt sources file on request. Thanks for any support you guys may lend. ---- Message posted via www.linuxforums.org . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
