Re: Debian & Sound Cards
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:09:17AM +1200, D & E Radel wrote:
> For example, I use a SoundBlaster Awe64 pnp card and although
> I narrowly managed to setup my /etc/isapnp.conf and add "sb" to
> my /etc/modules. For a newbie, this was a nightmare task, and
> even though I can get sound through my speakers now, certain
> apps like esound and gnome make a nice distortion sound instead
> of playing wav files, and I get a nice IRQ7 error in my dmesg. No sign
> of MIDI either.
When you configured isapnp, perhaps you assigned the sound card
an interrupt that was in use by a non-pnp device?
> Other dists have a sound configure app. Will Debian be implementing
> a similar app that will also set up things like Plug N Play, MIDI, Esound,
> necessary /dev permissions?
If the card is plug-n-pray, setup isapnp from the package isapnptools.
Be sure that you assign resources that are not already in use by other
devices. It is also sometimes necessary to grant a device the setting
it prefers (see the comments in pnpdump's output), because some cards
have a broken pnp implementation and don't work well if you don't.
Next you need to tell the device driver module what the hardware
settings are. It depends on your type of card, which ones are needed.
All I can say is look around the web for the name of the driver for
your card and the word "options".
You install the driver by typing:
modprobe $your_driver $options_list
(replace all the $things with their actual names in your case).
If that makes sound apps work, you can finish the installation with:
$ su -
# echo "options $your_module $options_list" >> /etc/modutils/local
# echo "alias sound $your_module" >> /etc/modutils/local
# update-modules
# adduser $your_user sound
# exit
$ newgrp #(or login again)
$ id #(it should say "sound" among others)
Cheers,
Joost
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