Ok, this is Doug Smith with the Oralux development team and I have a little suggestion about what might straighten out the problem on your laptop.
First of all, a little explanation of what might be happening to you. Laptops are very tricky little birds to work with, especially where adaptive software is concerned. They are not exact duplicates of desk machines and therefore, the hardware inside them might be a little, well, a lot different. Many laptops contain proprietary hardware. This means that only the makers of the machine know exactly how the internal components work, and usually, this is a closely guarded secret that you will only learn by infiltrating the company as an industrial spy, which might be quite a big ball of fun in itself. Well, we don't have time for that, and I don't even know how it would be done. Let's solve the problem, if we can, with our knowledge and abilities. What is probably happening is something to do with the detection of the hardware inside the machine, most likely, the audio hardware which tends to be a little nightmarish to deal with. It might be that the OSS or what we know of as kernel sound drivers cannot support this particular piece of hardware, which, usually, is a single chip or even a chip set mounted permanently onto the motherboard, the primary circuit board in the computer. Let's try this, first of all. In the knoppix-cheatcodes.txt file which we find in the KNOPPIX directory of the cd, we can find a possible solution. Try: knoppix alsa This will load the software into the machine with a different set of sound drivers. These might be able to find and successfully drive your sound chip. You will want to enter this when you get the boot prompt just as the system is starting to load. At this point, you have only 30 seconds to get the information in. You might also want to have a sighted user, your wife, assistant or other friend or family member to sit there and watch the screen on the machine for you to see what happens after you boot with the new sound drivers. If this is not the problem, please write to me again. I will be more than happy to look even more in-depth at this problem as we are always trying to make sure that our distribution works on as many machines as possible. Hope this helps. -- Doug Smith: C.S.F.C. Computer Scientist For CHRIST! Oralux: http://oralux.org _______________________________________________ Oralux mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux
