Joey Hess posts:
> Philipp Schulte wrote:
> > Try if there is a script called "snddevices"
>
> There is no script with that name in all of debian.
>
UR wrong. The script is hiding inside the source deb'ed
pack 'alsa-source_0.5.9d-4_all.deb'. Untar the resultant
'alsa-driver.tar.gz ' which U can find in UR /usr/src.
> I am more interested in how this is supposed to work with
> the debian packages
>
I too was. It is all done in a pucca way. The maintainer
Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> has done a great job in
packaging this.
> and why they do not do it automatically. I suspect it is a
> bug.
>
No, Joey..it's not a bug. Masato has packaged the source very
clue-fully integrating the install of the same with 'debconf'.
One can choose the sound card immediately once the .deb
package gets installed. Do not forget to read the
'README.Debian.gz' inside '/usr/share/doc/alsa-source'.
Generating the modules is a breeze 'coz only the relevant ones
for the card U have are compiled. Just see how easy the
process is with 'make-kpkg' !!
'make-kpkg' is got from the package 'kernel-package_xx.deb'.
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