Re: Sound

[Hanno Böttcher <maillists@hannoboettcher.de>]

Hanno Böttcher wrote:

> MacNean Tyrrell wrote:
>
> > OK I got debian up and running, but it seems I never installed ALSA 
> > or some
> > other sound device for my sound card.  Any commands I can run to do 
> > this?
> >
> >
> >  
> apt-get install alsa?
> If you use a prebuild kernel (I assume you do with a fresh install) 
> there are prebuild alsa modules also. I guess you are using stable, 
> and I don't know if alsa is working with it or what version of alsa 
> there is in stable. Look at backports.org and apt-get.org if you are 
> missing packages and change your /etc/apt/sources.list accordingly if 
> you want to take packages from there.
> (you can search for packages with "apt-cache search xyz" and look a 
> package with some details with "apt-cache show xyz").
>
> Hope to be of some help.
>
> P.S.: look at http://www.openoffice.de/linux/buch/ or www.debian.org 
> in the documentation section for some general information about debian
Sorry, I just saw that the debian book I approved is in german, so 
forget about that. But there are many books, howtos, faqs etc. on how to 
install debian and its package system.