On Monday 12 January 2004 19:38, Dave Jones wrote: > > i've just installed the 2.6.1 kernel from arjanv's rpm. have problems > > running > > sound. the sound device is not being recognised. should a different > > kernel param be passed? also, the pc speaker's dead. everythings fine on > > 2.4-nptl. > > This is likely because your system is configured to use the OSS driver. > In 2.6, the OSS drivers are deprecated in favour of ALSA. > Arjan disabled OSS modules a few days ago. For info, the Fedora > development kernel will be going the same way real soon. That will be a pity, as the ALSA driver does not appear to work with my Sony Picturebook C1VFK, while OSS (ymfpci) does work. lspci reports the sound devuce as: Yamaha YMF-754. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
