Re: alsa sound

[Warren Turkal <wturkal@cbu.edu>]

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I had problems with the alsa in 2.2.18pre21 also.
I just upgraded to 2.4.0 kernel and a newer alsa.
In ustable, do:
  apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.0 (or 1 if you like) alsa-source
look in /usr/doc/alsa/README.debian.gz for install instructions

On Saturday 10 February 2001 14:00, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 18:25:49 +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> >On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 06:56:58AM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:
> >> I have an sb-live sound card and I am having trouble getting sound to
> >> work.
> >
> >Which kernel-version do you use? In newer versions there is a emu10k1
> >module in the sound section so you don't need alsa at all.
> >Before the kernel-module I used alsa too but I compiled it from source
> >and followed the instructions from the alsa-mini-howto and never had
> >any problems.
> >Phil
>
> I was running 2.4.1 with the module from the kernel - and then I
> couldn't get sound to work because all the documentation I could find
> (including in the kernel) couldn't tell me how to get the module
> loaded.  In the end, I did a kernel recompile and started it and it
> seemed to destroy the root partition filesystem, so ...
>
> I reloaded debian from scratch using the potato (stable) cd 1 to get
> me to the point where you can edit apt/sources.list and then chose
> "advanced" selection of packages to put me into dselect.  I have a
> potato mirror on another machine with "selected" debs from unstable
> (mainly xfree 4, kde 2.1beta and then the libraries etc that that
> decision drags you into loading - also the alsa modules 0.5 - because
> they have the sb-live drivers in them), so it set sources.list to
> point to potato and (in another line entry) an "extra" directory tree
> where I have stored the extra stuff (used dpkg-scanpackages to create
> a Packages.gz file)
>
> So ...  I am now running 2.2.18pre21, and the alsa .debs are all the
> versions that use those kernel headers.
>
> Alan
>
> alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
> http://www.chandler.u-net.com

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