On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 18:48, ashish wrote: > hi! > 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. Dave