Install ALSA on new Unstable install for GNOME 2?
Team:
I inherited a newish box with an Intel Desktop Board D845GLAD2 motherboard.
I'm trying to figure out what to do about audio . . .
In installed from my woody CD, let dselect get the basic system up
to current woody, and then added lines for unstable to sources.list and
changed my default-release to unstable in apt.conf.
Then I let dselect take me to unstable.
I then installed gnome-desktop-environment, openoffice, evolution, etc. I
mounted my old external HD with my homedir, and voila, new revs all
working great with my configs. I couldn't be more pleased. And gnome is
running fine (1.7ghz Celeron with 256mb RAM).
But I never did anything about audio. There's a little speaker in the
upper-right hand corner of the gnome desktop with a line through it . . .
the intel.com web-site says that the D845GVAD2 has AC 97 audio with the
SigmaTel STAC 9750/66 codec. Googling has produced no meaningful matches,
and www.alsa-project.org doesn't list support for anything beyond the i820
chipset.
So what should I do about Audio? I assume I install ALSA, with support
for some audio hardware interface, add myself to the audio group, log out
and back in, and then gnome magically has audio support?
I've done over a dozen debian installs, but all were servers except my old
desktop, which had a really ancient SB LIVE that I never cared about, so
I've never dealt with audio before . . .
TIA
madmac
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