Sound Conf -- ESS Maestro-2
Hi,
I am a brand-new Debian user but have used other dists for several years. I
just installed potato and dist-upgraded to woody.
I'm trying to get sound to work on my laptop with ESS maestro-2. I've had it
configured for me automatically by Redhat 6.2 and Redhat 7.0 before.
When I run alsaconf and select ESS-Maestro2 I answer a bunch of questions
(Max. dac frame size in kB, etc.) which I have no idea what the answers are
so I select middles in the given ranges. First, is my problem related to
these answers & if so any ideas where to find them?
On finishing I get:
Loading driver:
Starting sound driver: es1968.
Setting the PCM volume to 100% and the Master output volume to 50%
The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system.
Could not initialize the mixer, the card was probably
not detected correctly.
Do I not have the ALSA sound driver? lsmod reveals a bunch of sound-related
modules -- looks okay.
When I try to play a sound I get nothing -- wavp appears to play wav files,
but no sound comes out (volume is up). Running amixer I get:
The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system.
I read a similar question on this list and the response was the alsa was beta
software and to try OSS. I can't find deb's for that with dselect. Wouldn't
OSS also be kernel sound modules, i.e. under /lib/modules/2.2.17/sound? Are
there deb's for these modules (which are different from the alsa modules I
have under there now) or will I need to compile the kernel myself to go that
route?
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Gavin Scott
support@pokerpages.com
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