Re: Alsa in Debian Sarge? How to?

[Pascal Bonesh <firms@tiscali.ch>]

> There is no need to do that. First, if you use Kernel 2.6, you must make
> the changes to /etc/modprobe.d, not /etc/modutils. 

Well that explains why I couldn't get rid of ipv6 which slows down page
loading in mozilla - but one thing at a time...

> Second, the debian
> package management and alsaconf should take care of that. On my system
> I have:
> 
> andreas@sirius:~$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
> install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm
> && /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss
> install snd-mixer /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-mixer
> && /sbin/modprobe snd-mixer-oss
> install snd-seq /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-seq
> && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-oss

same here

> andreas@sirius:~$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
> alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
> 

here it's:
# cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
options snd  device_mode=0660
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0

so pretty much the same

> The only thing I had to do was to add snd-emu10k1 to /etc/modules,
> because without it the init skript for setting the default volume
> failed.

I guess snd-emu10k1 ist the driver, so I did the same thing and added my
driver: snd-intel8x0

Now it looks like this:

ide-cd
ide-detect

mousedev
hid
i810_audio
e1000
psmouse
intel-agp
speedstep-centrino
thinkpad

snd-intel8x0

> > I rebooted (just to be on the save side) and started Gnome, I again
> > tried to run XMMS with the alsa output plugin, but it didn't work.
> > Nevertheless the OSS ouput plugin still works.
> 
> That probably means that the OSS driver module is loaded before the alsa
> module is loaded. That way ALSA can't work. You need to make sure that
> the OSS driver is not loaded. Check /etc/modules for the driver,
> and /etc/modprobe.d/* for entries like

# cd /etc/modprobe.d/
# grep -R . -e sound
./arch-aliases:alias char-major-14 soundcore
./arch/i386:alias char-major-14 soundcore
./sound:alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0

> alias sound-slot-0 driver
> 
> where driver does /not/ begin with snd.
> 

So I guess the above is alright then.

Thank you 
Pascal