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Bug#320860: marked as done (hw-detect: Should support basic sound card detection)

Your message dated Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:34:33 -0400
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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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I'm closing this bug because I'm actually fairly happy with sone card
detection in etch. My recent laptop install included the desktop task,
and that pulled in alsa-base and the rest of the things needed for
working sound; udev loaded the modules, and alsa sound worked out of the
box.

IMHO we don't need more support than that in the installer for it.

-- 
see shy jo

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