Re: ALSA loaded, but not playing sound

[Kurt Lieber <debian@kirpatrick.com>]

That definitely wasn't the answer I wanted to hear, but you were right.

I junked all the debian alsa packages, downloaded the latest source, compiled 
it and had it up and running in no time.  

For anyone else who runs into the same problem, I was using the deb packages 
from testing. 

Thanks for the help.  I'm now able to switch over to linux for my primary 
desktop.

--kurt


> Debian's packaging of ALSA is a mess.  Your best chance is to
>
> 1) Remove everything you already installed including the drivers,
> libasound, the alsa utils, xmms plugins, etc.
>
> 2) Get the latest 0.90beta8a packages from http://www.alsa-project.org/
>
> 3) Compile and install the drivers, lib, oss emulation, and utils in that
> order.
>
> ALSA is hard to package because the API in practically evey revision is
> incompatible with the previous revision.  I hope the packaging may get
> straightened out when ALSA solidifies.  I'd even volunteer to maintain the
> packages.