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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: debian-installer: installer fails to configure sound in a way that works with KDE
- From: Peder Chr. Nørgaard <pcn@pogt.dk>
- Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 23:12:08 +0200
- Message-id: <20060405211208.4872.14365.reportbug@pcnp.pogt.dk>
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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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful
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of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet.
In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.
You'll find daily builds at
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