Re: sound blaster live

[David Bellows <bfootdav@bellsouth.net>]

Wilson Fung wrote:
> 
> That I haven't tried, I guess I will.  Thanx for the suggestion, but which
> debs am I actually looking for.
> 
As I mentioned you'll find these in the unstable branch:
alsa-base_0.5.9b-1.deb                         
alsa-headers_0.5.9b-1.deb                     
alsa-modules-2.2.17_0.5.9b-1+2.2.17pre6-1.deb  
alsa-utils_0.5.9-1.deb                         
alsaconf_0.4.3b-2.deb                          
alsalib0.3.0_0.4.1e-5.deb                      
asmixer_0.5-6.deb             
libasound1-dev_0.5.9-1.deb
libasound1_0.5.9-1.deb
 
I don't remember which order you'll need to install these in or if you
even need all of them.  But if you start with one of them and try to
install it (i.e. dpkg -i alsa-utils_0.5.9-1.deb), it'll either install
or tell you which package you need to install first -- so you install
that one first! It takes a little patience, but will hopefully work.

You might also try pointing dselect to the unstable branch and going
that route so it'll take care of the dependencies for you, but this
might cause dselect to try to install a whole bunch of other files -- I
don't remember if I ever tried this, but this theoretically is the
easiest approach.

Good luck,
David Bellows