From: Kenny Hitt <kenny@hittsjunk.net>
To: Sean McMahon <smcmahon@usgs.gov>,
"Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: speakers and shutdown that used to work and now don't work as well
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 14:23:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050407192308.GA11039@blackbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000701c53b9a$f10387f0$77ac7682@azwaterDOM.wr.usgs.gov>
Hi.
Your problems are because you are using an old 2.4.27 kernel and OSS
drivers. Try upgrading to a 2.6 kernel and using the alsa support.
Hope this helps.
Kenny
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:55:00AM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> I really couldn't think of a better subject line. I upgraded a gateway 400 MHZ
> system to debian sarge speakup kernel 2.4.27. So far, these are the two things
> I've noticed. Sound works but only with headphones and another pair of speakers
> I have. Sound does not come out of the speakers I used to use when this system
> was windows. The speakers are the kind with a sub-woofer and I believe the
> cable connecting them to the speaker jack is the digital cable. They didn't
> work on my other linux or windows system either but I figured it was the type of
> soundcard. What's going on here? Is this some gateway propriotary thing going
> on here? The sound under Windows was registered as a creative soundblaster 64
> or 128D depending on which drivers I was using. Under Linux it reagisters as
> the ensonic S1371 chipset. I figure that is correct sinse sound with other
> speakers works. I'm using os sound modules. My second annoyance is the
> computer doesn't fully shut off when I shutdown. It used to do that almost all
> the time but not always. I've shut the system down twice, and so far, it is
> consistant. Power to the drives powers down, but you can still ear the fans
> wering and you really have to hold in that power button to get the system off.
> One thing I noticed from the bootup messages is the system apic couldn't be
> enabled because the bios was dectected as pre-1998. However, Linux was able to
> enable it's own apic and I did technically purchase the system in 1999. I
> don't know if I'm using apm or acbi.
>
>
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