[KLUG Driftwood] The difference a sound driver makes

[Adam Williams]

> > 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
> Do you get anything like that?
> gnophone seems to work, at least I can dial an extension and I 
> hear the recording played.

Is your sound device set to "Enlightened Sound Version 0" in gnophone.