Package: hw-detect
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
hw-detect could support basic sound card detection and automatically
schedule at least package linux-sound-base for installation.
This package allows to select between ALSA and OSS and takes care of
blacklisting the other. I am told it has sane defaults, but that should
probably be checked.
One step further would be to install alsa-base, but I'm not sure if for
Debian that should be done without asking the user.
The following code should allow detection for PCI cards with 2.6 kernels.
AFAICT 0401 is the class for sound devices.
case "$(uname -r)" in
2.6*)
if cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/class 2>/dev/null | grep -q "0x040100" ; do
log "Sound card detected"
apt-install linux-sound-base
fi
;;
esac
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