Tim Rowledge wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is widely believed to have written: > > > If you want to phrase the issue a bit more formally (without the "eat > > sh*t...."!) and in a bit more detail, I'll be happy to forward it to the > > Happy Hackers *nix group: there are people there who live RedHat. > How about:- > The /dev/dsp device is claimed to be missing. I have no idea what the > appropriate response (aside from "Goly, what an unpleasant surprise") > would be.
probably "Oh f+^&, I knew I should have bought SuSE, or Debian!" :-( > > :-) > If you (or anyone that can be bothered to look) can make sense of the > assorted magic incantations in the /platforms/unix/misc/conf* stuff, > maybe that would reveal what tests are being done and maybe what new > test(s) are needed. Or maybe there is something pathetically simple to > do? Unfortunately, I've yet to step into the sound minefield: one thing I do know is that many of the recent distros (I'm not sure where your old RedHat fits into the SuSE chronology) at least don't require a kernel re-compilation. I've not messed with RedHat since 5.1(!) and don't know what their administration tool does, but it looks like in SuSE you just point Yast at your sound card, and it does it -- given that there's a driver -- (you then spend the next week messing about with permissions.....) But I'll put something to the hackers: something like "my sound in RH 6.3 worked just fine. Now I've upgraded to 7.1 it doesn't. Any ideas on what I need to do to get it working again?" Cheers John -- If you don't care about your data, like file systems which automagically destroy themselves and have money to burn on 3rd party tools to keep your system staggering on, Microsoft (tm) have the Operating System for you.
