Story of utter stupidity and alsa sound drivers ^^
so... one day, after getting sick of suse, that big slow OS, i installed debian. As regular beginner (to unix in general... i have used windows long time) installing with custom settings it threw me with loads of apps i didn't really need and extra window managers (kde, gnome both).
I ran it a while using all the custom stuff, it was still good os, solid and fast. Until i was told that what makes debian good, is possiblity to use what you want, not what others want you to use (and ofcourse the allmighty apt-get).
So, here came format - clean beginning... everything went surprisingly fine until the alsa part, trying to install it, i failed... so i read that kernel 2.6.x has good alsa support inbuilt I installed it without thinking AND STILL no sound.
Just to test if that helps I built a custom kernel (*G*, it succeeded in 3-rd time... quite good result)... and surprise surprise... STILL no sound... (gnome desktop btw)
2 days ago i has to do another format (i tried to install nvidia drivers, and messed up my system completely, X wouldn't start and using the old backup Xconfig file didn't help nether... but it doesn't matter, i don't need 3D stuff, im happy if i have sound, video, apache, php and mysql
) i tried numerous things to get alsa drivers working without any success, googled for every error i got returned and read atleast 10 pages of results (kernel 2.4 this time)
And now, about a hour ago, i tried turning off Gnome sound service... and miracle... alsa working, why didn't i think about that at the beginning?
/me grasps hes head and cries softly
now I'm so happy with first class audio support, and fact that i learned quite a much about linux trying to get those cursed drivers working.
Not much of a success, but still worth posting here (i hope)
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oh yeah, apache/mysql/php combo rocks totally... cant live without them locally, web deving isn't exactly most pleasant experience through ssh... with 5 seconds of keystroke lag
