Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
Alex: You were a bit harsh with words like "luser". Glen asked for a howto; he didn't ask for a solution from the list. In such a situation, there's no need to post "'useful' problem reports".On Sunday 16 June 2002 06:03 pm, you wrote:On Jun 16, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:Is there a step-by-step howto of how to set up audio on Debian. If not, suggestions?please as a word of ettiqutte, in future post 'useful' problem reports. All that then happens is a generic response is sent out, which normally involves the reply containing information that should of been in the original e-mail. 'Requests' like this are normally passed over and ignored by mailing list/newsgroup roamers......you are lucky this time mear luser :)Alex,I would like to thank you for your arrogant, obnoxious reply to my letter. It's people like you that keep Windows users using Windows. "The mainboard has a built-in AC'97 4Ch Codec, provides an AMR slot..."Please don't ever respond to my posts, even if you have the answer. I have better things to do with my time than to sort through your rudeness.Glen
Glen: Don't get your panties in a wad. It's easy to get offended on email lists if you have a thin skin. Alex's posting was generally accurate, if a bit harsh (although it didn't apply in this case because you asked for a howto, not for direct help) . Ya gotta learn to spot those smilies and weigh them more heavily than the hot words in the posting.
I'd encourage you two to kiss and make up, but I'm afraid the damage has been done.
So on to your question: I don't know of any good howto for setting up sound on Debian. Sometimes www.debianplanet.com has good stuff that is Debian-specific, but my quick look-see there turned up nada.
So, your next best bet is probably to search the Debian Mail List archives, and then to post specific questions to this list. However, to get you started, I offer the following suggestions.
Find out what sound card you have. According to your post above, it's an AC'97 variant. It has been my experience that that's kind of a general label, like having an Intel Pentium; do you mean Pentium 5-120, or Pentium III, or what? To get more info, the "lspci" utility is quite helpful. If you run it, you should see something like:
Mon Jun 17 21:22:33 ----------- EnJaeLove[westk]:/home/westk> sudo lspci Password:00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] System Controller (rev 12) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] AGP Bridge 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16) 00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20)01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS
Notice that my sound "card" is also an AC'97, but more specifically it's on a motherboard with a VIA chipset, and the sound chip is the VT82C686. So I'd search the Debian Mailing Lists for "vt82c686".
You'll find that there are several sound "solutions" floating around. The two most common are OSS (Open Sound System) and ALSA (something something something Architecture). If you want to try the OSS route, I'd download the newest kernel source I felt comfortable with (2.4.18) and compile a kernel with the appropriate module/built-in support for the vt82c686 chipset. If you wanted to go the ALSA route, you'd need to download some ALSA packages. I believe the ALSA solution may be more newbie-friendly, but I'm not that conversant with it.
For now, I'd recommend you to run "lspci" and then post the results here and see if anyone has any further suggestions.
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