1 | root | audio | 14, | 19 | Jun 30 | 12:17 /dev/dsp1 | ||
1 | root | audio | 14, | 35 | Jun | 30 | 12:17 /dev/dsp2 | |
1 | root | audio | 14, | 51 | Jun | 30 | 12:17 /dev/dsp3 | |
You might have to restart X for the changes to take place within X, though they should work immediately on the console.
This was all it took for me. If you’re still at a loss, you need more help than I can give
5Rerolling your Kernel
Avoid this.
Even if you don’t avoid it, before you attempt to
•lilo
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•modprobe, insmod, lsmod
and check out the content of /proc/filesystems (to see what filesystems you’re supporting in your current kernel).
To see what’s in your current kernel, look at your config file, which lives in /boot. It’ll
And again, I urge you not to recompile. Maybe you know more about this stuff than I do (which is likely), but you want to know a lot more than I do before you do it.
Which is weird, because all my other kernel rerollings and installations in debian — on desktop systems without other OS partitions — have gone really smoothly.
Whatever. Let the buyer beware, and know what you’re getting into. But more power to you.
6If You Decide to Reinstall ...
During this frustrating endeavor, I twice had screwed up my install so far that I decided it would be simpler to scrap what I had and to reinstall the whole shebang than to try and fix what I currently had. I think this was a good call both times, and it felt easier the second and third times around — what had taken me a day or two now took me an hour or two.
6.1Trashing It
I made the mistake both times of forgetting to back up parts of my system. If you reinstall, back up your homedir and /etc. The homedir, because if you’ve
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