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    Sun, 10 Apr 2005

    KNOPPIX 3.8.1 2005-04-08

    Just released. Torrents here. New: 2.6.11 kernel, UNIONFS, ipw2200, homedirectory, many updates.

    Plain KDE startup boot and runs too slowly on Old PCs with 64 MB of RAM (and knoppix.swp on hda1)..

    From knoppix-cheatcodes boot with

      knoppix desktop=twm

    Previously I had installed a CreativeLabs SoundBlaster CT4170, set the jumpers to speaker/line, and attached un-powered speakers. "sndconfig" didn't run because it was looking for soundcore.o rather than soundcore.ko. Then

      modprobe snd-sb16
  play /usr/share/sndconfig/sample.au

    and it worked!

    # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_sb16               14312  0 
snd_opl3_lib           12160  1 snd_sb16
snd_sb16_dsp           12928  1 snd_sb16
snd_pcm_oss            47904  0 
snd_mixer_oss          18688  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                77828  2 snd_sb16_dsp,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              23684  2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         11268  1 snd_pcm
snd_sb16_csp           21376  1 snd_sb16
snd_sb_common          16768  3 snd_sb16,snd_sb16_dsp,snd_sb16_csp
snd_hwdep              11040  2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_sb16_csp
snd_mpu401_uart         9856  1 snd_sb16
snd_rawmidi            22816  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device         10636  2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd                    46308  13 snd_sb16,snd_opl3_lib,snd_sb16_dsp,
  snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_sb16_csp,
  snd_sb_common,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore              11104  1 snd
...
# cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.8 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux Knoppix 2.6.11 #8 SMP Sun Mar 20 21:09:51 CET 2005 i586
Config options: 0
 
Installed drivers: 
Type 10: ALSA emulation
 
Card config: 
Sound Blaster 16 at 0x220, irq 5, dma 1&3
 
Audio devices:
0: DSP v4.16
 
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
 
Midi devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16 MIDI
 
Timers:
7: system timer
 
Mixers:
0: CTL1745
 
Mouse is ECM|0001 at /dev/ttyS0
Soundcard: driver=ALSA(autodetect)
 Video is 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+], using XF86_s3(vesa) Server
 Monitor is SAM4d50, H:28.0-96.0kHz, V:50.0-75.0Hz
 Using Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

    Soundcard: Creative ViBRA16X PnP:Audio driver=sb

    On KNOPPIX SB is autro-detected.

    On Red Hat 8.0 SB is autodetected kernel 2.4.20-28.8 sb.o 13512 bytes, sb_lib.o 49649 bytes.

    "kernel: sb: ISAPnP reports 'Creative SB16 PnP at i/o 0x220, irq 5, dma 1,5"

    in LTSP sb is not auto-detected

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