> On Nov 21, James D. Freels illuminated : > I have an Alpha machine with a Digital "Alphastation" sound card. > On prior v2.2.x kernels, the Microsoft Sound System (MSS) sound > card option was sufficient to enable sound. However, the identical > sound configuration in the kernel does not seem to work for v2.4.x. > read the changelogs, specifically the ones concerning sound stuffs in /proc and /dev.
or to be more explicit, /dev/sndstat and /proc/sound have been removed in the 2.4 kernels. i have an alphastation 255/233 and ... cat /proc/ioports reveals: 0530-0533 : WSS config 0534-0537 : MS Sound System /proc/interupts disturbs from under a rock: 9: 1 XT-PIC MS Sound System and mpg123 every_os_sucks.mp3 : High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3. Version 0.59q (1999/Jan/26). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp. Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more! THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Title : Every OS sucks Artist: Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie Album : Year: 2001 Comment: http://mp3.com/ Genre: Unknown Playing MPEG stream from every_os_sucks.mp3 ... MPEG 1.0 layer III, 64 kbit/s, 44100 Hz stereo I guess sound works. kernel config: OSS sound modules MSS sound system == module mpu401 == module -- Jean-Paul Blaqui�re || Avatar of Computational [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Thaumaturgy http://japester.ucc.asn.au || IHTFP "The male ego is a puppet master with a black sense of humour"
