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Bug#361003: marked as done (debian-installer: installer fails to configure sound in a way that works with KDE)

Your message dated Tue, 23 May 2006 20:57:19 -0400
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and subject line Bug#361003: debian-installer: installer fails to configure sound in a way that works with KDE
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Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal

This report is about etch installer beta 2.  I start by admitting that it may not be an installer
problem at all; it may be that sound/KDE does not work at all in current "sid".  In that case I hope
you installer guys can redirect me - it could be a kernel problem, a udev problem, or a KDE problem.

I have a PC - a few years old - with an ASRock K7S8X mother board with built-in Intel 810 sound. Sound
has worked fine with KDE in a sarge installation on this PC.  But not now, with
linux-image-2.6.16-1-686 version 2.6.16-5, udev version 0.088-2, and KDE at 3.5.2.

The installer doesn't ask or otherwise do anything about sound. But when KDE is started, (with sound
"hardware" configured to "autodetect"), the message is that /dev/dsp does not exist.  And that is
correct - it doesn't.

The interesting thing is that the kernel has loaded a bunch of sound
modules:

% lsmod | grep snd
snd_intel8x0           29436  0
snd_ac97_codec         82784  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus            2048  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                74408  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              20292  1 snd_pcm
snd                    46080  4
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               8672  2 i810_audio,snd
snd_page_alloc          9800  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

So it is not that the kernel/udev hasn't recognized the sound hardware, or
has recognized it wrongly.  The problem is somewhere else, probably some missing
software or missing configuration.

Or perhaps just missing documentation.  I searched the installer FAQ,
the installer manual and the HOWTOs on sound.  No joy.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

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Closing this bug. Another possibility is a newer kernel version fixed
it. Thanks for your followup.

-- 
see shy jo

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