On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:22:23PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: | On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, dman wrote: | | > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:24:08AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: | > | > | Jon Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked about sound. That makes a bit | > | of sense in my case, because sound doesn't work too well on the laptop | > | (choppy) and I probably had sound turned on for close window events. I | > | guess I'll look at that. | > | > You probably have the wrong DMA channel selected. This was the | > problem I had with my previous desktop system (that actually had a | > sound card). | | Worse! I think I had the wrong sound card driver. I've rebuilt the kernel | sound, but now I get the dreaded "Can't Open /dev/dsp device". I haven't | figured out why yet.
I recommend building all the (potentially relevant) sound drivers as a modules so that you can toy with them and try different settings without going through a recompile and a reboot. If some specific kernel features aren't absolutely essential then you could use a stock kernel to figure out what you need for sound since the stock kernels come with just about everything in module form. -D
