Installation and startup of SB sound card driver, alsa etc.
I have installed a minimal Hamm on a Compaq Prolinea 486 with 120M disk and
an SB compatible sound card (yes I know that they are not always as
compatible as all that but I haven't got far enough to worry about that, I
think).
I used dselect to install alsu-utils and eveything else named alsa except
the source. Ran also-config (or some similar name) and it created a startup
script. I ran the script and tried to run aplayer and the other utils but
all of them say that they cannot open the sound device. The relevant device
files all exist (audio, dsp).
I have looked at the Linux Sound How-To which didn't help at all. It seems
that everyone else has sound working and has higher level problems but I
can't even get started. Help!
I have been using Debian for a couple of years and I have done a two year
stint as a DEC OSF/1 sysadmin so I count myself as moderately familiar with
Unix in general but I am completely stuck here.
Kevin Whitefoot
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