Re: How to install ALSA sound driver

[Jonathan Chang <changcs@santos.ee.ntu.edu.tw>]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, u860321 phys wrote:

> 大家好,我是一位debian新手,但玩了CLE一段時間了.
> 也曾經在CLE下成功安裝過ALSA,但到了debian卻連安裝都不行.
> 它顯示的訊息似乎是說找不到xxx的header file.
> 這是否是因為兩種distribution的檔案目錄配置不同,
> 才造成這問題呢?我應該修改什麼讓他找到header file???
> 我也曾經嘗試安裝alsa0.4xxx.deb,卻因為此版本不支援我的音效卡
> 而放棄.
>        very appreciate your reply!!!
> 

Try the pre-compiled alsa binary modules, for example alsa-modules-2.2.17
if you use the pre-compiled kernel. Properly set the module alias as
follows:

add in /etc/modutils/alias:

alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-gusmax  /* change this corresponding to your card */
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss  
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss  
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss  
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss 

Then update /etc/modules.conf by running update-modules. Hopefully, you
snd card will work after rebooting (Q: is rebooting necessary here??).

Any further questions, let us know.

Jonathan