"Timothy R. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The first is that no matter which xserver config I choose KDE 3.1 > locks up on me several times a day, requiring a reset button.
which may be a hardware problem > Secondly, 9..2 insists on installing the mobo AC97 sound chip even > though I have a mobo jumper set to disable it. the only way to really disable it would be to hide it on the pci bus, which is not done if lspcdirake -v show it. > I was able to get sound as root, but not as user. classic bug sound tester: "lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO" will tell you which driver your card use by default "grep sound-slot /etc/modules.conf" will tell you what driver it currently uses "/sbin/lsmod" will enable you to check if its module (driver) is loaded or not "/sbin/chkconfig --list sound" and "/sbin/chkconfig --list alsa" will tell you if sound and alsa services're configured to be run on initlevel 3 "aumix -q" will tell you if the sound volume is muted or not "/sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp" will tell which program uses the sound card.
