Re: Installation and startup of SB sound card driver, alsa etc.

["Kevin Whitefoot" <kwhitefoot@hotmail.com>]

I was trying to avoid recompiling because at the moment my only Linux box is 
this 120 mega byte disk machine so I don't want to install any more than 
absolutely necessary.  I'm not sure I have room for the sources and gcc.  I 
finally found a how-to for alsa.  A cursory glance at it suggests that 
setting alsa up is a little more complex than just running dselect, I'll 
read the rest and see if it helps.

Last minute news: I have finally managed to connect to 
http://www.alsa-project.org/, perhaps that will solve all my problems.

Thanks,

Kevin Whitefoot



> From: Joachim Trinkwitz <jtr@uni-bonn.de>
> "Kevin Whitefoot" <kwhitefoot@hotmail.com> writes:
> > I used dselect to install alsu-utils and eveything else named alsa 
> except
> > the source.  Ran also-config (or some similar name) and it created a 
> startup
> > script.  I ran the script and tried to run aplayer and the other utils 
> but
> > all of them say that they cannot open the sound device.  The relevant 
> device
> > files all exist (audio, dsp).
>
> Did you compile basic sound support as a module in the kernel?
>
> Then, if you don't have installed the same kernel-image as
> appriopriate for alsa-modules-2.2.XX, you should compile your own
> alsa-modules from the sources-deb. (cd /usr/src ; tar -xvzf
> alsa-sources-xxx ; cd linux ; make deb ; make-kpkg modules_image).
>
> Greetings,
> joachim
>
>
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