sound hell
hello,
i'm currently running potato (upgraded from slink) and am finding it absolutely impossibe to get sound working. i've never had this problem w/ my last 2 debian machines. the only difference being those two had SB AWE64 cards, and this one has a SB PCI128.
in the past i've always just downloaded and installed OSS w/ no problems. this time however, is different. it's given me a billion errors. i seem to have fixed most of them by downloading the kernel source (which wasn't there after the initial install), making some changes in xconfig, saving them and doing a 'make dep'.
finally i've got it down to only one error during installatio of oss:
*** 'sndshield' version error ***
See /usr/lib/oss/Readme for more info.
in which it mentions:
This
means that the "active" kernel sources have to be in /usr/src/linux. If
compiling sndshield fails it usually means that you have installed,
configured or compiled the kernel incorrectly.
which they're not. fine. recompile time. yet, a good ways through "make bzImage" it dies w/ this:
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -E -D__BIG_KERNEL__ -traditional -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA bootsect.S -o bbootsect.s
as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s
make[1]: as86: Command not found
make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [bzImage] Error 2
grrrrrrrrrrrrrr...... so my question is:
1. am i just stupid?
2. am i making this way too complicated
3. is there an easier way?
all of the HOWTO's end up mentioning "isapnptools" which does me no good since it's a PCI card. i'd be willing to do a re-install if i have to (btw, i got lazy and installed a preconfigured setup this time around. the "dialup machine" option, if that matters).
i absolutely can NOT do w/o sound and afraid i'll have to wipe out this drive in favor of Corel this weekend (damn it! why can't debian adopt corel's "sound_setup" program. it works so nicely!), which i really don't wanna do. so if anyone has ANY suggestions, i'd be SO grateful.
thanks in advance,
james
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