i've just tried to record in my slightly cookered 8.2, i was trying to use audacity but it kept seg faulting but then i found that good old rec didn't do anything - that is - if i tried to record in stereo, in mono everything is fine! it worked the last time i tried a few months ago, i have no idea where to look for this, i've been searching the archives but no-one seems to have reported this except one chap on the audacity lists at sourceforge,
this is one of those classic situations where knowing what should be listed under - in this case /dev/sound (dsp dsp1 dspW in my case) and what permissions they should have would help me try and look for misconfigurations but that sort of thing just isn't documented for all sorts of basic system functions, so as an aside does anyone know of any resource that details - not how your sytems works but what you should have and where? anyway i think i have stuff under /dev that i should have, i thought to upgrade my sound driver for my sblive and then i realised that although i know how to upgrade the system as a whole and individual packages as well, i don't know what i should to do to upgrade/change just one small thing such as a driver, modules and stuff don't seem to come in packages but are made during kernel installs? i thought to do an 'upgrade' to the latest cooker snapshot but only chose the sund drivers but of course that's not an option you can choose, i guess installing a later kernel might have later drivers? but how to just keep the current kernel and upgrade driver? any pointers anyone? bascule p.s below is a sample of stuff from my logs, that is why i think it is a driver thing: Jul 15 23:20:12 mycroft kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Jul 15 23:20:12 mycroft kernel: Process audacity (pid: 2586, stackpage=c217d000) Jul 15 23:20:12 mycroft kernel: Stack: c8c782b8 000005c2 00018000 0001c000 00010000 00014000 00000246 c217c000 Jul 15 23:20:12 mycroft kernel: 00000100 c42917a0 c8c6c0fc c42917a0 00000282 00000000 c73bc3a0 c73bc758 Jul 15 23:20:12 mycroft kernel: 00000000 c50010c0 ffffffea 00000100 c01345e6 c50010c0 08201fc8 00000100 Jul 15 23:20:12 mycroft kernel: Call Trace: [8139too:__insmod_8139too_O/lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/n+-1121608/96] [8139too:__insmod_8139too_O/lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/n+-1171204/96] [sys_read+150/256] [system_call+51/64] Jul 15 23:20:12 mycroft kernel: Call Trace: [<c8c782b8>] [<c8c6c0fc>] [<c01345e6>] [<c0106f23>] Jul 15 23:20:12 mycroft kernel: Jul 15 23:20:12 mycroft kernel: Code: 0f 0b 5a 59 83 c4 10 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 56 Jul 15 23:20:46 mycroft ntpd[1168]: kernel time discipline status change 41 Jul 15 23:21:23 mycroft kernel: kernel BUG at audio.c:1474! Jul 15 23:21:23 mycroft kernel: invalid operand: 0000 Jul 15 23:21:23 mycroft kernel: CPU: 0 Jul 15 23:21:23 mycroft kernel: EIP: 0010:[8139too:__insmod_8139too_O/lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/n+-1162467/96] Tainted: P Jul 15 23:21:23 mycroft kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c8c6e31d>] Tainted: P Jul 15 23:21:23 mycroft kernel: EFLAGS: 00010082 Jul 15 23:21:23 mycroft kernel: eax: 0000001c ebx: c2f824c8 ecx: c0262520 edx: 00002d59 Jul 15 23:21:23 mycroft kernel: esi: 00000002 edi: 00000007 ebp: 0000ffff esp: c637df2c Jul 15 23:21:23 mycroft kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Jul 15 23:21:23 mycroft kernel: Process audacity (pid: 2627, stackpage=c637d000) Jul 15 23:21:23 mycroft kernel: Stack: c8c782b8 000005c2 00018000 0 -- 'I don't like to ask them questions.' 'Why not?' 'They might give me answers. And then what would I do?' (Lords and Ladies)
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