Rmoving the sound modules

[Net Llama!]

Tim Wunder wrote:
> The good news is that Audacity works now, from XFCE. I think aRts is in the 
> way in KDE, audacity runs, but won't listen to the sound card. The bad news, 
> krecord still bombs at startup; I haven't tried gramofile with the new driver 
> yet. Of course, I'll never know if it's the new driver, or the killing of 
> whatever process had /dev/dsp open that solved my problem. 

Yes, KDE is the problem, not the solution, and anything that relies on 
KDE to function, such as krecord, is going to drag all of the KDE 
baggage along with it.

>>>In the meanwhile, it appears as though I'm gonna need to reboot the box
>>>(after removing the sound module references from /etc/modules/default) to
>>>unload this driver.
>>
>>Actually, removing it from /etc/modules/default (which is a caldera-ism,
>>rather than the standard /etc/modules.conf) might help.
> 
> 
> One of these days I'll make the leap to another distro. I've added enough crap 
> to my Caldera install that installing a new distro and getting everything the 
> way I want it isn't a small job :-(
> I'm running the latest KDE, the latest GNUCash (CVS), and a few experimental 
> things (preemptive kernel for one). Not to mention keeping my mailserver and 
> webserver active. 
> Oh yea, and I've got three other users to think about (2 sons and the wife). 
> Sounds like I need a new PC ;-)

I hear Lindows boxes are selling for $300 at walmart  ;)



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