Bug#361003: debian-installer: installer fails to configure sound in a way that works with KDE

["Peder Chr. Nørgaard" <pcn@pogt.dk>]

On Thursday 06 April 2006 01:08, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 April 2006 23:12, Peder Chr.Nørgaard wrote:
> > The interesting thing is that the kernel has loaded a bunch of sound
> > modules:
>
> Most of those are alsa modules. Try installing the alsa-base and
> alsa-utils packages and reboot. After the reboot, you will probably have
> to adjust the volume level once (it's zero by default).
>
> If that does get sound working, try running alsa-conf.
>
> Please let us know if this solved your problem.

Thank you for quick and working advice.

I did install alsa-base and alsa-utils (which pulled in linux-sound-base). 
That was not in itself enough - I also had to install package discover - that 
was suggested by the alsa packages.  (OK, it was really an upgrade; 
debian-installer had installed package discover1, and package discover is a 
newer version of that).  After that, the udev did create a /dev/dsp for me.

So now my problem is solved.  However, I would suggest that this is really a 
task for debian-installer - either simply unconditional installation of alsa 
(and the newest discover), or give the user an option to "install sound".  

As a bare minimum, the hint you gave me here ought to be available somewhere 
in the installation guide.  It isn't for now, and the various HOWTOs on sound 
are completely outdated - from the epoch before 2.6 kernels, udev and ALSA.

best regards
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