Re: Setting up sound - alsa config

[Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>]

Vin Jacob wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:43:19 -0800 (PST), Punit Ahluwalia
> <punit_a@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a 2.6.7 kernel running on a compaq presario laptop. The sound card driver support
> > is built into kernel. Running alsa-conf complains no pci sound cards can be found. I am
> > copying relevant parts of kernel-config, dmesg and lspci. Can someone point me to Sound
> > configuration or simply tell what I am doing wrong. I did not enable OSS as thats how the
> > kernel-help advises.
>
> If you have hotplug or discover1 installed, you may need to blacklist
> the OSS modules in their respective config files (On winbloze right
> now, let me know if you need the exact file names) and comment out the
> OSS modules if any in /etc/modules as well.
> The volume by default might be muted, alsamixer works well. 
> Here is my 2.6.10 config should you need it. http://gpoppy.org/config-2.6.10

If you used apt-get (or Synaptic, etc.) to install the ALSA packages, it 
should automatically remove the OSS configs and set up ALSA to run on boot.

If you didn't use apt-get to install the ALSA packages...what were you 
thinking?  =)

I suggest you use Synaptic to purge and then reinstall the ALSA 
packages, and go from there.  I had no probs doing it like that.

Good luck.