On Monday 18 December 2006 01:32, Rony Bill wrote:
--- krishnakant Mane researchbase@gmail.com wrote:
Acer! it is a big pain in the ass (roni very well knows why I say this).
Luckily my Acer is working fine except for sound in VCDs. I was rumaging through my CDs for tomorrow and found a dvd with 2 Slackware 10.2 ISOs. I burned them and tried out the installation in my PC for practice and it loaded smoothly. I used the default 2.4.31 kernel and sound and video is up. VCDs played with sound. Sound was initially at minimum volume but I got it through kmix.
Ok your problem is definetly esd. Kubuntu uses alsa. U have too load esd-alsa (or alsa-esd). with mplayer, xmms and several others u may have to select the appropriate plugin. U might also have to make a link from /dev/dsp0 to /dev/adsp0. If kmix runs on kubuntu, it's only the output plugins that need to be selected.
This distro also has a testing kernel 2.6.13 and if nothing works tomorrow, I will use this.
Why not stick to debian. with the latest hardware u will at best require a newer kernel. I use 2.6.17-3 and all my hardware works like a charm.