Bob, Thank you VERY much for taking the time for such an informative reply for a newbie! On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 05:56, Bob Chiodini wrote: > (I upgraded in hopes > > that the new kernel would have better support for my WinTV-PVR-250, > > otherwise I would not have attempted this as it is way above my head...) > > Don't know about this, my TV card is in a 2.4.x box. If it's BT848 > based it should work. Check out freevo or mythtv. I ended up installing a custom kernel (back to 2.4.x) that has support for my TV card. The new WinTV-PVRs no longer use a bttv chip, it's connextant instead and there's not much linux support yet. I am in the middle of configuring mythtv, so far nothing but snow on the screen but I'm working on it. > > > 2. Kudzu keeps wanting to reconfigure my eth0 (Natsemi->Netgear FA311) > > everytime I reboot. > I've seen this too. If you reboot enough times (nics+1, maybe), I think > kudzu will correct it. When I was playing with 2.6 kudzu eventually did get the idea after enough reboots, it stopped trying to configure my eth0 every time, just FYI. > > Remove the hdx=ide-scsi kernel command line parameters from grub.conf or > lilo.conf. You should then be able to refer to your CDROM by its true > device name (e.g. /dev/hdc or /dev/cdrom) Thank you, that helped a lot. The line was actually in modprobe.conf, now it's working. > > > > 4. I read that I'm supposed to install the ALSA drivers for 2.6... > > You should also install the ALSA libraries and utilities. > > Run alsaconf to update modules.conf (or modprobe.conf), it should be > installed as part of the ALSA utilities. Yes, did all of that. > > > I had to install the alsasound startup script to load the modules at > boot time. It was part of the ALSA drivers download. Copy it to > /etc/init.d and run chkconfig --add alsasound, then chkconfig --level > 2345 alsasound on, then service alsasound start. You must run alsamixer > to un-mute the sound card. BTW: I built the ALSA S/W from tarballs. Thank you very much! Followed your steps exactly and now I actually have sound at startup. Once again, it was nice of you to take the time to help a newbie out. Will
