Re: install troubles

Last Monday 29 November 2004 01:53, Glenn English was like:
> BUT -- this is from a working system. I booted demudi to get the data to
> answer your question, and the snd-hdsp module loaded, jack worked,
> rezound came up and started bouncing its meters, and the hdsp mixer and
> config programs came up. Nothing from the speakers yet, but I didn't
> expect there to be yet (I don't even know if they're plugged in -- signs
> of life from the RME card has been the problem).
>
> Maybe I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, but now I'm more
> confused than ever. I swear I didn't do anything to it (that I know of).
> I looked through the output of dmesg, but didn't see anything of
> interest in there. There was some interesting looking messages on the
> console during boot -- do you know where they were logged?
>
> If you have any explanations or conjectures about this, I'd sure like to
> hear them.

You restarted ALSA - it loaded the drivers this time and voila!

Sometimes after configuring stuff you do effectively have to restart the 
system. You don't technically have to reboot the machine, but when you're 
starting out it's frequently quicker than figuring out the alternative.

cheers

tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk