RANT: sound on Linux is EVIL

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 07 January 2007 00:02, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
>On Saturday 06 January 2007 11:04 pm, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
>> An hour later, my wife left in disgust about 50 minutes ago, and I
>> still DON'T HAVE A PEEP OUT OF THIS DAMN COMPUTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Two hours and four reboots later.  What actually woke sound up was
> booting the live CD and then rebooting back to the hard drive.
>

But this is a clue too.  You did a warm boot, so whatever initialization 
the cd boot did, survived.  Now the trick is to do a cold boot, make a 
copy of the lsmod and dmesg, then do a cold boot from the cd, make 
another copy of the lsmod and dmesg listings, followed by a warm boot, 
and see what differences there are between the lsmod and dmesg listings.  
Someplace in all that I'm betting there is going to be a forehead 
slapper.  Like maybe building something into your kernel that for some 
strange reason doesn't work when builtin?
 
>Bizarre.

>I hate computers.

So do I, they waste entirely too much time with stuff like this.. :)

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Cheers Michael, Gene
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