Christian Perrier wrote: > At the end of the install, a user session is automagically opened and > I intend to get a nice sound saying "Hello and welcome to your new > Debian system"...in the current language. The session is a GNome > session because this is what give all defaults settings. > > Here comes my nightmare : though the sound card in my test box is > properly detected (modules are loaded), the sound server in Gnome is > just unable to use it. I think there's a good chance that this is due to gstreamer0.8-oss not being installed as part of the desktop install. Note that this is fixed as of yesterday in gnome-applets 2.8.1.1-4 in unstable. This prolem with gnome not working with the OSS sound modules used by default is really a separate problem from alsa not working. > I manually tried "alsaconf"...then choose my card....but the result > was the same. > > Finally, I figured out that after doing so...just rebooting the > machine gave me some good working sound. Probaly this is because on the first boot, the OSS module for your sound card is loaded. I guess that alsaconf either adds a module to /etc/modules, or loads it, in either case you need to remove the OSS module and modprobe the alsa module before alsa will work. Of course a reboot is one way to do that, not the only way though. -- see shy jo
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