no sound and sleep in 2.6.1

[Timothy Murphy]

On Monday 12 January 2004 19:38, Dave Jones wrote:

> > 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.

That will be a pity, as the ALSA driver does not appear to work
with my Sony Picturebook C1VFK, while OSS (ymfpci) does work.
lspci reports the sound devuce as: Yamaha YMF-754.

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