Re: Newbie trying to install Soundcard on Debian Linux
Hello
Marion Hall (<hallm@1satcom.com>) wrote:
> What's the easiest way to install soundcard drivers on system. I've
> setup an Icecast server and I need a working sound card. My computer
> (Gateway) has an onboard soundcard, but if it is easier to install a
> soundcard, then I can do that. Also, how do you go about testing the
> sound card once the driver is installed.
If you want to use the OSS drivers (which are available in kernel 2.2,
2.4 and 2.6), add yourself to the audio group, and load the driver. Use
lspci and a search engine to find out which one you need. If you can't
find out which driver you need, you can also ask here.
If you want to use the ALSA drivers (included if you use kernel 2.6, but
you can compile the drivers for older kernels), install the alsa-base,
alsa-utils and alsa-oss packages. Run alsaconf to set up the driver,
add yourself to the audio group, and run alsamixer to unmute the
channels.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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