RE: Sound

["MacNean Tyrrell" <dardack@nycap.rr.com>]

Sometimes I amaze myself, of course uname -a will tell me what kernel.  I
found a site to help install ALSA with kernel 2.4.22, we'll see how it goes.

-----Original Message-----
From: MacNean Tyrrell [mailto:dardack@nycap.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 6:51 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: Sound

OK I'll take a look.  And know I'm using sarge, testing, need it.

Btw which kernel is in sarge?

-----Original Message-----
From: Hanno Böttcher [mailto:maillists@hannoboettcher.de]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 5:47 PM
To: Hanno Böttcher
Cc: MacNean Tyrrell; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Sound

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.


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