> .
>
> Oh, and what was it you were doing to get this improper suggestion
> from your package manager?
>
> Hugo.
>
I think I now know what caused all this in the first place. While
messing with real player I lost my sound. as part of that I thought it
would be good to install alsa. that process required the loading of a
kernel on which alsa depended. I'm pretty sure that is the case because
I have lost sound support again following an update to a bunch of
packages as a result of my efforts earlier today! Running aptitude to
have a go at installing alsa brought about (almost) the download and
install of a new kernel image.
Now I'm stuck on how to get sound back
rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jul 15 2006 dsp -> dsp0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 15 2006 dsp0
all the devs seem to be present and correct.
Mike