Re: Switching to ALSA on Potato 2.2r4
Debian User, 2002-Jan-06 17:41 -0800:
> I need assistance getting the ALSA sound drivers installed on Potato
> - 2.2r4.
>
> I recently switched my old SuSE 6.3 box to Debian using the 2.2r4 CD
> images. Everything is going swimmingly, with only a few, minor
> issues. On my old SuSE installation I was using the ALSA sound
> drivers with my Creative/Ensoniq Audio PCI128 card (Ens 1371). These
> were compiled and installed manually. I now want to do this on my new
> Debian installation (and do it the Debian way).
>
> Unfortunately the current state of ALSA on Stable/Potato seems to be a
> total mess. Selecting any ALSA module via DSELECT triggers mutually
> unresolvable installation rules. Worse, if you've already installed
> other sound drivers on a working system, you cannot uninstall them
> without triggering cascading module removal which strips out many
> already hard-fought installation battles (basically anything that uses
> sound).
>
> Regardless, I intend to put ALSA on my system this week -- and do it
> the Debian way -- _come high or hell water_. The only problem is that
> I am not a Debian expert.
>
> I will document this so that others can benefit from my experience.
> But I need somebody to assist me in getting the Debian bits correct.
> I would appreciate it if somebody would volunteer to collaborate with
> me on this.
>
> My current situation is a working Debian system with sound compiled
> into the kernel using standard kernel drivers. I am running E and
> Gnome on X.
>
> CPU/MB: PII-400 on Asus P2B-F
> Sound card: Creative/Ensoniq AudioPCI 128 (ens1371).
> Distribution: Stable/Potato 2.2r4
> Kernel: 2.2.19 compiled from source (via make-kpkg)
>
> I have perused the debian-user mailing list and read ALSA-specific
> inquiries and responses. I'm ready to go anytime.
>
> Thank you very much.
I haven't had much luck with the ALSA packages in potato either.
I just download the ALSA source packages and compile them myself.
http://www.alsa.org
Get the drivers, utilities and libraries.
jc
--
Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian Admin and User
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