Hello Roy.

07 Feb 03 04:06, you wrote to me:

 RJT>>> Hmm .... have a look at the CD's I sent you, you will find
 RJT>>> ecasound there, a  good place to start, me thinks ...

 RJT>> Oh?  That's in there?  Cool,  I'll have to take a look.  I'd
 RJT>> looked those over not too long ago (within the past week or so,
 RJT>> I think) but I must have missed that...

 RT>> Might have missed putting it on then, look for ecasound, and if I
 RT> RT>> remember correctly there is a "sound" directory there
 RT>> somewheres, if not, don't panic  I am busy compiling a Linux
 RT>> sound utilities CD, too many bits an pieces  on too many CD's,
 RT>> and it will make my life easier to collect then all in one
 RT>> place, when that is finished, I'll write you one as well.

 RT> It's probably on there,  but my mind has been more preoccupied with
 RT> the upgrade lately.  I've still got my list of files that will be
 RT> stomped on up on the other screen here.    Once I get past this,
 RT> I'll have a look at those discs again and see what I can find.

Way to go, get you system stable, and running the way you want it to run, the 
start playing with sound. Now that is time wasting of another type ... 
sound..., and eats HDD space. :-(

 RT>>  

 RT>> No doudt you are learning a lot, but it is taking time, and my
 RT>> objective is usually to get a system working/fixed as soon as
 RT>> possible. 

 RT> Yeah,  but it's *working* right now.  It may not be optimum,  but I
 RT> can still do a bunch of useful work on it.

Your definition of working and mine differ a bit :-))



 RT> I could be mistaken,  though -- I did see some scripts in there
 RT> someplace (in the kernels directory?) that look like they address the
 RT> issue.

Then take a closer look and find out what you need to make them work. :-)

 RT>>> Am waiting for Slackware 9.0 to  come out and will get a CD to
 RT>>> play with, will also post you a copy. :-)

 RJT>> Heh.  Perhaps I won't be running 8.1 very long.  :-)

 RT>> That will depend on how long it takes you to sort out your
 RT>> problems, and how long before Slackware take to release Version
 RT>> 9.0. 

 RT> I expect that the next step is to back up what I think might be in
 RT> some danger of getting overwritten,  and then just go ahead and do it.
 RT> Probably this weekend,  the way things are looking.

Always better to be safe than sorry. :-)

Russell

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