sound - no sound

Hi, sound on my system worked fine until a recent upgrade to the latest kde packages. I'm running debian unstable. Sound is through a via686a chip, with sound support built into the kernel. No alsa or oss on system. No sound!!! When I load kmix there are little red lights under the CD and microp

kernel image not recognized

Hi, I downloaded the source for kernel 2.4.7 I configured and installed the kernel in the same manner I have done countless times on multiple prior kernel versions. Everything went fine. I create the kernel image using the "make bzImage" command. When I tried to restart the computer I got the mess

bizarre console problem

I'm running debian unstable, kernel 2.4.2, latest kde packages. >From the moment the kdm logon screen appears and at any point thereafter (i.e. when kde is running), if I switch to a text console (alt-ctrl-F1 etc.) the screen is filled with vertical black and white stripes and I cannot see any tex

kde and fonts

I may be missing something obvious here or maybe there's a bug in kde. Debian unstable XFree 4.0.2 xfs server xfstt server (for true type fonts) latest kde revision (I think now it's kde 2.1.0) from unstable packages Although I have lots of fonts installed in my system and although X seems to