[K12OSN] Sounds of Silence

[anthony baldwin <anthonybaldwin snet net>]

You'll recall that I was having sound issues.
When I logged out of KDE and into Gnome to see if the problem was an 
Arts problem and maybe I could get sound in Gnome (didn't) I got an 
error saying Gnome couldn't find localhost.localdomain,
Well, I had editied /etc/hosts to call the machine darthvader.deathstar
apparently this was messing things up (everytime I su at root I would 
get a similar msg).
So I su-ed and pico /etc/hosts and edited it to reflect the desired name 
of localhost.localdomain again.
Could the sounderserver have been having issues due to the same thing?
Seems like I had sound when I edited this months ago, but just lost 
sound after a recent kernel update.
How much am I potentially screwing things up by messing with the nameof 
the machine in /etc/hosts?  I updated the kernel while it was labeled 
darthvaer.deathstar  Will the kernel be confused now that I have changed 
it back to localhost.localdomain?
Just how stupid do these questions make me look, anyway?

tony

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