no sound and sleep in 2.6.1

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Mon Jan 12 19:38:50 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 18:48, ashish wrote:
> hi!
> i've just installed the 2.6.1 kernel from arjanv's rpm. have problems 
> running
> sound. the sound device is not being recognised. should a different kernel
> param be passed? also, the pc speaker's dead. everythings fine on 2.4-nptl.

This is likely because your system is configured to use the OSS driver.
In 2.6, the OSS drivers are deprecated in favour of ALSA.
Arjan disabled OSS modules a few days ago. For info, the Fedora
development kernel will be going the same way real soon.

	Dave





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