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Posted: Aug. 21 2004,03:47 QUOTE

Instead of a HD install, you could complicate things even further by instead doing a "remaster" of your modified DSL into a new livecd.

Obviously, it would no longer be only 50MB but you could probably use "toram" in a 128MB RAM computer and almost certainly for a 256MB RAM computer.

Jusy make sure to remove all of the extra stuff that you installed before recreating the livecd or your disk size will be huge.

And be prepared to spend a week or so of your spare time to make all of this stuff work.
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Posted: Aug. 21 2004,05:46 QUOTE

In trying some similar things myself, some other issues came to light.

When you apt-get the gcc, g++, and make files..  you get version 3.3
It seems that the kernel and sources were made with versions gcc 2.95,
which complicates things , and creates a minimum of a lot of error messages.
Many things just don't like it...

I would follow cbagger01's advice, and first search for alternatives to
DSL that support your sound chipset ..  like another mini-knoppix..

He suggested using the knoppix disc to see that alsa even works with it..
Good Idea....

You could easly get another soundcard for your box,
disable the i810 in your bios, and live happily ever after ...  

Does anyone know if there will ever be a "ndiswrapper" for
sound cards that want windows drivers , like we have now for
modems and ethernet cards ?

If AMD, NVidia, Via, Adaptec, etc... can design hardware that works with linux..
WTF does "Intel" have in mind, and WHO is footing the bill for their R&D ??

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Posted: Aug. 21 2004,15:52 QUOTE

One way to try alsa on a mini distro is with Feather. When booting up the CD, type knoppix=alsa. It detects my audigy 2 platinum card.

I will add that I have only gotten this to work on the Feather liveCD. On a HD install, alsa appears to break. I reinstall alsa via debian but it does not detect my sound card! It's very strange.

An alsa .deb package is available so maybe you can d/l it for DSL and get it to work? I don't know.

Good luck!

Chris
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Posted: Aug. 21 2004,17:01 QUOTE

The Debian alsa packages are intended for a specific version of the linux kernel.

I believe that the DSL 0.6.x/0.7x kernel is not compatible with the Debian ALSA packages in stable/testing/unstable.

But I could be wrong.

How in the world did Feather keep ALSA support with their distro?  I assume that ALSA is a disk hog.  Maybe my assumption is incorrect. Of course Feather has an extra 14MB of compressed data available in the iso.

I have the same (or very similar) chipset in my Dell 400sc / Intel 875p motherboard, so when I use DSL I have no sound  :(

My best guess for a strategy is:

Wait for DSL 0.8 to come out. See if it has ALSA.  If it doesn't, use knoppix 3.4 dated ??/??/???? to copy that ALSA files and build an extension, which could be very difficult or very easy.  The answer will be unknown until it is tried.
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Posted: Aug. 21 2004,17:35 QUOTE

Unfortunately, ALSA did not work on the computer. It got rid of the error from XMMS about the sound card, and XMMS started playing, but i got no sound. Go figure (damn intel). I guess I'll either get a new sound card or just play with DSL on my older computer (which is what I'm doing now anyway). Maybe I'll check out Feather too.
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