Re: Funny? (Sound, ppp and modules in Debian Woody 3.0)

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 03:33, M=A7K wrote:
> Here is the main problem: when I press play on XMMS no sound is played bu=
t
> the modem switches on (!).
> I'm using kernel 2.4.9, everything is correctly installed (I hope).
> I even added
>     alias sound-slot-0 dmasound_paula
> to etc/modutils/aliases and ran update-modules, but it didn't work.

/dev/dsp is correct, and xmms set up to use it?

> Moreover, when I launch KDE after loading the window manager a message
> appears telling something about a cpu overload problem dealing with the
> sound server.

AFAIK this particular problem is a known artsd breakage.

> I can't connect to the internet either.
> GKDial connects but drops the line as soon as authentication ends, kppp
> can't access /dev/ttyS0 from users even if all the permissions and group
> are set correctly (I'm in dip,
> dialout etc...).
> When I run kppp as root, it finds the modem, connects, but then pppd dies
> (also after I chmoded it) telling that it can't find ppp (but the aliases
> seem right).

Can you run pppd with the debug option and look at the debug output in
the syslog?


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Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast