Re: [Sheflug] more newbie rubbish

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Peter Smith wrote:

> Sound still no luck
> 
> I have installed alsa from the suse discs but it tells me that it is already
> there & used by yast 2 to detect sndcard. Well I know that do'nt work.

Have you actually tried using alsaconf though? It can be a bit more
explicit about what the actual problem is.....

> Also installed oss tried  run it from terminal window but I get the message
> "no such file or directory" which according to the intructions means I think I
> am using the wrong version, As it says there is one for libc/libc5 and one for
> glibc/glibc6 = Suse 6.X. I would have thought that the one included with suse
> 6.4 would have been the latter??

Mmmmm, should be.. OSS also doesn't work with PCI cards, (at least, not
the freeish version, I dont think), although that shouldn't affect you.

> This is perhaps trivial but driving me batty as apart from this, This is the
> best install I have had.

What settings is Windows using? That's usually a good clue if something's
a little odd....

Cheers,

Alex.


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