[Glastonbury] sound on Tosh laptop

[tim hall]

On Sunday 04 December 2005 22:57, Martin Wheeler was like:
> On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, tim hall wrote:
> > This is wonderful news. :)
>
>   . . .
>
> >  the promised integration with
> > ALSA now actually works out of the box without having to faff around.
>
> Mmm . . not quite . . yet.
>
> One of the problems is the fact that laptops use combined modem/sound
> cards, which are the source of all sorts of conflict problems,
> particularly when you don't use the modem, but a PCMCIA network card.
>
> At the moment, alsa has conflicts with udev (replacemnt for hotplug); so
> plugging in a network card can actually kill my sound facilities!
>
> Tonight for example, I had to reboot three times, alternately popping the
> PCMCIA card in and out, before sound decided to turn itself on.
>
> The order in which you start up your kernel modules is also important here
> -- sometimes starting the modem before the sound utilities is enough to
> kill sound dead.
>
> > I've actually been holding on Debian/DeMuDi stable in order to get some
> > work done. I think this is a sign that it's time to move back up to
> > testing. :)
>
> Maybe.
>
> > Out of interest, which version of the 2.6 kernel are you on?
>
> 2.6.12-1 Sep 27

Thanks for those observations, Martin. More grist to the mill!

-- 
cheers,

tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim