Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Since there are so many different sound cards, we cannot provide a sound module that is working for all of them. In addition to that, more and more people are using OSS. Therefore we have made the decision, to comment out the sound module line in /etc/conf.modules. This is why you still can manually load it, but kerneld won't. We had a lot of support requests from people, who crashed their machines because kerneld attempted to load the sound module on machines which where not properly configured.
This is a TERRIBLE idea, to break sound completely because a percentage of your users are such idiots they can't be trusted to have properly configured boxes.
to do is to reactivate this line in /etc/conf.modules. Look for the string "alias char-major-14" and make sure, there's no "#" in front of it and the second column reads "sound", not "off".
If I manually inserted the module I got sound from cd and mp3s. Midi was completely broken, period. I installed OSS just to see if that would work, and I got _the_exact_same_results_, cd and mp3 played fine, no midi at all. Apparently there is some sort of problem with /dev/dsp that neither S.u.S.E. 5.1 or 5.2 suffered from. This has totally sucked for me, S.u.S.E. linux was a very important part of my life, and today's problems have made me _physically_ill_, I am so stressed over it. BUT I WILL NOT USE A BROKEN DIST. Nothing would make me happier than to have a 100 0.000000unctional 5.3 install, but I am not going to relearn everything I know about linux to make this dist have proper sound. If someone could give me a plain answer why /dev/dsp is broken with the kernel drivers AND with oss under 5.3 and how to fix it I would be in heaven, otherwise I need to format and give my S.u.S.E. partitions to FreeBSD because I can't afford to go any longer without my pc. Please reply to me directly as I am no longer on the mailing list. -- .###. /#######\## -==============================================- ;##### ;# Mike's WindowMaker ;##### ;# <A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/windowmaker.html"><A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/windowmaker.html</A">http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/windowmaker.html</A</A>> \# /## -==============================================- ###'---'#### - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e