On Sunday 01 September 2002 08:24, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:00:08AM +0300, Amir Tal wrote: > > On Saturday 31 August 2002 16:22, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:55:39PM +0300, Amir Tal wrote: > > > > hi, > > > > > > > > had this laptop running RH73 with sound working, no prob. > > > > switched to sid, and lspci doesnt show any info about the sound card. > > > > of cource modprobe tells me to go to hell (no hardware). > > > > > > > > settings in the bios are the same, didnt touch anything since it last > > > > worked with RH. > > > > > > > > debian sid, 2.4.19, toshiba tecra8000. > > > > > > > > help...? > > > > > > Get redhat's kernel rpm. Apply the necessary patches it contains to > > > the vanilla kernel. Build the kernel. Boot. Make sure it works. Find > > > out which patch was necessary for you. Mail the kernel mailing list > > > asking for its inclusion into the kernel proper. > > > > i hate to sound like a lazy ass, but there's got to be a more simple > > solution then that. after all, i was running 2.4.18 on that RH, not > > patched or anything, and everything was supported out of the box. > > *which* 2.4.18, the vanilla one, or redhat's one? If it's redhat's, > it's patched with over 80 different patches...
vanilla > > > i am thinking that since lspci dooesnt even show anything about the sound > > device, then maybe its a hardware problem ? > > You just said that it was working before, so a hardware problem is not > particularly likely. hardware can get fault, you know. it used to work before, but i cant tell what got wrong since then, and since this is a laptop, i cant just replace the sound card there and check with another one... > > > before i'll go and start re-building my kernel, is there any chance that > > this is not the case ? > > its gonna be a bitch compiling it all over again for nothing on a P II, > > 300Mhz. > > It's not that bad... but verifying that it's a software and not > hardware problem should probably come first. Do you still have rh on > that box as well? nope. -- ====================================== Amir Tal Owner, Founder Whatsup, Hebrew Linux Portal Voice: +972-8-9363164 Cell: +972-58-978979 ICQ: 15748705 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.whatsup.org.il ====================================== ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
