Roy-Anders Larsen wrote: > I have an SB16PnP and I recently posted the instructions on how I did the > sound on my system to this debian-user list, see: > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9903/msg03187.html > I think http://netgod.net/ has the latest kernel debs, but I don't know if > there are any sound modules compiled in those debs. > I'm currently running Debian 2.1 (slink), with kernel 2.2.4, and > everything seems to work fine (except for the midi/synth, that is, and > I've tried mostly anything I could think of to make it work. Not even the > real OSS driver worked on that part). >
Thanks a lot Roy for these tips, especially for the links! I think I'll go ahead and fetch a 2.2.* kernel and compile that, including sound according to your instructions; I believe there were some source debs under the URL that you gave me but I have to check that again. I must say it really pisses me off that I have to re-compile the kernel just to make the soundcard work (it happens that I have a SB16 PNP, too, that's fairly standard hardware IMHO even here in Germany), but maybe it's worth the effort. I just hope ppp and the other stuff won't complain after the upgrade. BTW, did you see an increase in mem requirements after switching to 2.2.4? Thanks again, -- Olaf