speakers and shutdown that used to work and now don't work as well

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

Your problems are because you are using an old 2.4.27 kernel and OSS
drivers.  Try upgrading to a 2.6 kernel and using the alsa support.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny
	  
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:55:00AM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> I really couldn't think of a better subject line.  I upgraded a gateway 400 MHZ
> system to debian sarge speakup kernel 2.4.27.  So far, these are the two things
> I've noticed.  Sound works but only with headphones and another pair of speakers
> I have.  Sound does not come out of the speakers I used to use when this system
> was windows.  The speakers are the kind with a sub-woofer and I believe the
> cable connecting them to the speaker jack is the digital cable.  They didn't
> work on my other linux or windows system either but I figured it was the type of
> soundcard.  What's going on here?  Is this some gateway propriotary thing going
> on here?  The sound under Windows was registered as a creative soundblaster 64
> or 128D depending on which drivers I was using.  Under Linux it reagisters as
> the ensonic S1371 chipset.  I figure that is correct sinse sound with other
> speakers works.  I'm using os sound modules.  My second annoyance is the
> computer doesn't fully shut off when I shutdown.  It used to do that almost all
> the time but not always.  I've shut the system down twice, and so far, it is
> consistant.  Power to the drives powers down, but you can still ear the fans
> wering and you really have to hold in that power button to get the system off.
> One thing I noticed from the bootup messages is the system apic couldn't be
> enabled because the bios was dectected as pre-1998.  However, Linux was able to
> enable it's own apic and I did technically purchase the system in 1999.    I
> don't know if I'm using apm or acbi.
> 
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