Hi all, anonymous coward (though pretty constant reader):
After much elbow grease and humbling experiences, I've managed a Debian 2.2 kernel re-compile (very scary for a newbie like me) so to get sound support without soundcard selection (needed by ALSA drivers) and to enable loadable modules. Now though, everything I read with a long filename (from a CD burnt in windoze, 'course) such as alsa-driver0.5a.bz2 comes up alsa-d~1.bz2, so killing the file when I try to untar. I know there is an easy way to do this (please?), but do I have to recompile the kernel again to support long filenames?
Feeling closer than ever to getting a stable system running PD (see www.pure-data.org), proud I'm finally running Debian (a.savory's advice)
cheers,
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