Posts by c0bblers

Quote: Originally Posted by seablade Hmm Flash9 by end of year? Whered you get that one from BT? Last I heard they were looking at next year. Also in past I havent been to impressed by the aoss script, if you can I...

The distro probably has kernel level OSS emulation as well as the alsa-oss package. The alsa-oss package includes a utility to wrap OSS calls and redirect it to alsa at runtime outside of kernel, while the kernel level support is more...

Flash uses OSS rather than ALSA and is probably pointed at the wrong soundcard via /dev/dsp...can't remember if you can configure the soundcard in the right-click configuration menu you get with flash....

As abf says card readers are pretty badly supported in Linux due to nasty nasty hardware developers not publishing specs. If you're lucky the sdhci driver will work http://mmc.drzeus.cx/wiki/Linux/Drivers/sdhci otherwise you're...

Yeah some lappies have come out with terrible DSDTs though recently this has been improving both on the Linux side (making it a little more...flexible for bad code) and the manufacturer side. I seem to remember Acer being one of the...

Hmm, booting from SD cards, didn't know any BIOSes supported that. How far into booting do you get BTW? I suspect the problem is that while your BIOS supports booting from SD cards the bootloader trying to boot the OS doesn't.

TBH even with processor optimisations on all the packages the perceived "speed" of the system will change very little since processor optimisations effect the runtime efficiency of the compiled code rather than load time, which...

Hmm, never fiddled with pcmcia in linux though I know a few of the guys around here use external soundcards...have you tried the "pci=assign-busses" kernel parameter? It's often needed to get pcmcia to work properly so I'm told.

If you're set on REALLY learning GNU/Linux you can't beat the Gentoo experience IMHO. I've used just about every distro under the sun (including LFS) but always come back to Gentoo. It's so easy to tweak things to your liking, add...

Different kernel. 99.9999% of the distros I've seen come with a SMP variant of their kernel.