[KLUG Driftwood] The difference a sound driver makes

[Bruce Smith]

> At the chamber the little announcement lady's voice was choppy and
> usually cut off before she finished her schtick.
> 
> Assuming that was the result of the crap-known-as-OSS, we upgraded John
> Bridleman to ALSA but it didn't work.
> 
> Well, I upgraded my laptop to ALSA and it works great,  regalar sound
> (XMMS, etc...) works and the asterisk automated attendant is now clearer
> than a sylvan choir.

OK, I upgraded my laptop too.  I have the same RPM's installed, and
copied the lines direct from your email into my modules.conf.

I rebooted, and played a .wav file fine.

Then I started gnophone, and I get the following error messages
scrolling on the screen as fast as they will go, even without doing 
or dialing anything:

Error reading voice data on Unknown Audio device on /dev/dsp
No bytes to read
Error reading voice data on Unknown Audio device on /dev/dsp
No bytes to read
Error reading voice data on Unknown Audio device on /dev/dsp
No bytes to read
Error reading voice data on Unknown Audio device on /dev/dsp
No bytes to read
Error reading voice data on Unknown Audio device on /dev/dsp
No bytes to read
Error reading voice data on Unknown Audio device on /dev/dsp
No bytes to read
Error reading voice data on Unknown Audio device on /dev/dsp
No bytes to read
.... repeated bazillions of times ....

Do you get anything like that?

gnophone seems to work, at least I can dial an extension and I 
hear the recording played.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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