[Cialug] Fragile sound support in Debian

[James Shoemaker]

Renegade Muskrat wrote:

> Any idea why Debian's sound support keeps breaking and how to fix it? If 
> i ever get sound working again i think i'll put a hold on the versions 
> for all packages containing either "alsa" or "kernel" in their name... 
> maybe if i never upgrade alsa or kernel it will stop breaking.
>                                                -- Dan

	ALSA has to be built to match the kernel you are using.  It seems that 
you are upgrading the kernel without having a matching version of alsa 
to go with.  Just get the alsa source package and build a version of the 
package to match your kernel.

James