Solved: Problem with audio after reinstalling

[Cheryl Ann Homiak]

Espeakup, mplayer, speakup, etc. are now playing nicely together. Here is 
what had happened.

I have a Prism 2.5 wireless card in this Thinkpad T23. I hadn't been able 
to get it to work before when I installed and had been using a pcmcia 
wireless card. When I installed this time, the card sort of worked. The 
interface would come up on wlan1 but I would get constant messages about 
virtual device wifi0 asking to queue packets. Changing to wifi0 stopped 
the card from working altogether. I had noticed during installation that 
the card was listed as eth1 though I hadn't been able to get it to 
configure to use during the installation.

I did an lsmod and found the 
following modules that appeared to be ones that might be conflicting or at 
least one of them might be causing a problem: orinoco, orinoco_pci, 
hostap, hostap_pci. By process of elimination I found that my card worked 
when I blacklisted all except orinoco_pci but that also stopped speakup 
and espeakup from working when mplayer was running. I finally solved the 
problem by playing with blacklisting some more. Now I have orinoco and 
hostap_pci blacklisted. The strange thing about this is that orinoco and 
orinoco_pci actually appear when I do lsmod now but when I blacklisted 
hostap and hostap_pci I had problems. Blacklisting orinoco and hostap_pci 
ends up with bost hostaps not loading but doesn't produce problem results. 
The only kind of strange thing is that mplayer loads with oss instead of 
alsa. I can force alsa with -ao alsa but then I seem to always get a 
48000Hz sample rate where it varies with the default oss according to what is 
being played or streamed. At any rate, at least I'm not having conflicts 
between my audio playing and my screenreading.



-- 
Cheryl

"Let the words of my mouth,
and the meditation of my heart,
be acceptable in thy sight,
O LORD, my strength and my redeemer."
(Psalm 19:14 Bible KJV)