Dell 8000 manual Rerolling your Kernel, If You Decide to Reinstall, Trashing It

crw-rw----	1	root	audio	14,	19	Jun 30		12:17 /dev/dsp1
crw-rw----	1	root	audio	14,	35	Jun	30	12:17 /dev/dsp2
crw-rw----	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 sound-wise — good luck!

5Rerolling your Kernel

Avoid this.

Even if you don’t avoid it, before you attempt to re-install a kernel you rolled, read the manpages on the following:

•lilo

•install-mbr

•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 be /boot/config-‘uname -r‘.

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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