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Everything Else => Desktop Operating Systems Issues => Zaurus General Forums => Archived Forums => Linux Issues => Topic started by: BigO on March 29, 2004, 11:06:26 pm
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For anyone who needs to figure this out:
To get USB connectivity to your Zaurus (or to anything) with 8.2, either you can install a patch or you can upgrade your kernel. SuSE 8.2 has 2.4.20, and for USB to function, you need 2.4.21. You can install this with YaST, but when you do, you will knock out your sound system. At least, that\'s what happened to me. (It also knocked out some parts of WindowMaker that connect with KDE, so I\'ve switched to KDE. I took the precaution of reinstalling KDE, but I don\'t know if that\'s necessary.)
I upgraded alsaplayer and all the packages it depends on. Then run alsaconfig -- after you do this, you will once again have a driver for your sound card. Although my sound card worked when tested, at this point nothing could actually produce any sound, at least, of any quality. I then turned off arts, which can be done very easily in the sound subsection of the Control Center, and reset the system notification to the system bell (otherwise instead of a bell, you get a blast of white noise). And I turned the volume back up in KMix (it had been reset to 0).
Incidentally, the easy way to keep the usb modules loaded with SuSE is just to use the /etc/sysconfig editor in YaST in the Software-]System section.
I hope this helps someone -- just wanted to give something back to this site, which has helped me so much. And yes, I did make a small donation as well.