SCC presentation

[Michael Havens]

Buddy, Buddy,

I volunteer! I'm not sure if I would be much of a help or more of a leech at 
the present time. I would be a leech in that I would be learning more than 
contributing. But if you wouldn't mind I will be there.
-- 
:-)~Mike~(-:

ps I'm going to bring my system tomorrow for two reasons.

1- Configure the Visor
2- Following is some advise I have been getting about some sound problems. The 
final solution which works is that I soft-boot to get the sound working. I 
wasa hoping you could figure something more practical out. It has not been 
stopping lately so....
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On Wednesday 13 November 2002 19:03, Linux Gazette wrote:

> If the file exists but the driver is not initializing, it could mean the
> hardware is flaky, or Red Hat is choosing the wrong driver, or the
> device is finicky and needs some special initialization (from a Windows
> driver).



You maybe need to start the alsasound script out of /etc/rc.d/init.d/. It 
loads ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) modules and initializes the 
sound system. Then KDE's artsd (from which the error comes) can open the 
dsp device. It seems that artsd has a low timeout value for opening the 
device and the kernel module loader is to slow to load all sound modules.


Modules -- for those who don't know -- are like "device drivers". The Linux 
kernel provides an mechanism that automagically loads the modules on 
demand, e.g. if the sound device is opened for the first time.


If you start KDE, then logout and restart it, the error should disappear 
and artsd should initialize correctly, using the sound device.


On Wednesday 13 November 2002 10:01 pm, der.hans wrote:
> moin, moin,
>
> OK, we lost momentum on this.
>
> Who wants to volunteer to help create a presentation we can use for things
> like this?
>
> I think we should have a 45 min presentation on what Free Software and
> GNU/Linux are.
>
> We should also have two 45 min intros to Knoppix. Intro I and Intro II, so
> if we have a longer period we still have material.
>
> We need one or two people to lead this and at least a few more to help
> provide the content.
>
> Ideally the presentations are for one of the programs available on Knoppix.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans