RE: Sound not working
ta guys, Elimar the rh stuff b4 that i posted was an example, i was curious
if i had to do something like that in Debian to get sound working. An
update on sound issue...I did get sound working, perfectly, but only for
root. So...I did adduser maxus audio. Logged out...logged back in...now
i've lost all sound, both as root and normal user. Kernel/modules are
fine/were fine. This is really odd, cos all I get now is a "sheet, sheet,
sheet etc etc " sound. Really odd. I've enabled oss, via sound modules etc
in kernel previously (rather than modules) and that looks all fine. I'm
still keeping my default kernel (and hence modules in /lib/modules) as a
backup. Any ideas on what has gone wrong/possible fixes?
Dave
Note: i didn't install alsa, as I did get sound working perfectly as root,
until of course I added my normal user to the audio group and logged
out/logged in...logically i don't expect alsa to fix it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Elimar Riesebieter [mailto:riesebie@lxtec.de]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 September 2002 1:50 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; David Pastern
Subject: Re: Sound not working
Hi David,
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 the mental interface of
David Pastern told:
> Hi again,
[...]
What are you doing there? I thought you install a debian box!
Do you want to build your system from scratch? Bahh. Try GenTo or
something else. BTW there exists a project "linux from scratch". Use
google to find it.
> 1> Check that you have kernel-source in /usr/src/x.x.x
>
> 2> Change linux_src_directory to correct path in "config.in"
>
> 3> Copy soundcore and ac97_codec source to current directory
>
> "make snd_install"
[...]
Enough for yet. Try it the debian way. You've build your own kernel.
As I read former threads you did it on the classic way. Now:
Get the kernel-sources you want:
apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18
If you want:
apt-get -t testing install kernel-source-2.4.19
For your sound get working you need:
apt-get install alsa-source
chdir to /usr/src
do a tar -xjvf kernel-source-2.4.1X.tar.bz2
do a tar -xzvf alsa-driver.tar.gz
The drivers will then be in /usr/src/modules.
Do a ln-s kernel-source-2.4.1X linux.
chdir /usr/src/linux.
do a make-menuconfig or in X make-xconfig.
configure your kernel for your needs. BTW you don't have to compile
the sound stuff directly. Only choosing CONFIG_SOUND=m seems to be
enough for using the alsa-drivers.
After your config has finished do:
make-kpkg --initrd --revision=YOURVERSION1.0 --kernel-image \
--modules-image
Go for a cup of coffee (maybe you prefer a glas of whisky). After
compiling you have to switch back to /usr/src. Do
dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.19_YOURVERSION1.0_i386.deb
dpkg -i alsa-modules-2.4.19_0.9+0beta12+3+p0+YOURVERSION1.0_i386.deb
Check the advices while installing your new kernel-deb package.
Your lilo must confirm to your new kernel. Put your user to grp audio.
Start mp3blaster and enyoy Frank Zappa on your debian-way build
woody-box! ;-)
If you want to use 2.4.19 don't forget to do an update to the
recomended compiling stuff:
apt-get -t testing install initrd-tools fileutils modutils.
I suppose yor next mail will be written with mutt or either other
linux mua ;-)
Ciao
Elimar
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