jtd wrote:
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.
Sorry to cause this mix up of information.
The Slackware CDs were tried on my P4 system just for practice in case they were needed to be installed at the FOSS camp that Krish was organizing with his team, for an NGO. I was to visit the next day as they were facing problems.
It was there that 4 out of 6 laptops were refusing to load linux. Of those 2 were the same model as my Acer 2428 and 2 were HP. I loaded linux in 3 of the 4 stubborn ones but the last one an HP with a silly 'Intel Core Solo' logo could load only FC5 but that too got stuck on reboot. I had to come back home for the night so could not stay there with the campers. :(
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.
I am definitely looking forward to Debian 4 once its released. :)
Regards,
Rony.
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