On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 01:00:40AM +0200, Juraj Fedel wrote: > I am trying to install Debian Sarge from 14 CD to my brothers > computer. Installation is OK but there is no sound. When I try > to play some sound with 'play sound.wav' nothing happend. No > error reported - no sound on speakers. It does not matter if I > play as user or root. > With 'lsmod' I see that drivers are loaded. > I also tried to install 2.6 kernel (and boot into it) with no difference. It would help if you gave details of your sound card. > Now I am thinking of using other kernel. Since on Ubuntu sound > work OK I am wondering if it is possible to use kernel from > Ubuntu and everything else form Debian. If yes how is best to > do it. I am thinking of: > - install debin (only base system) > - then istall ubuntu kernel and headers (will need them for > compiling modem driver) > - install everything else from debians CDs. > Is this posible? It may or may not be possible, but it shouldn't be necessary. If the Ubuntu kernel gives you sound, the Debian 2.6 kernel should. However, Ubuntu does some automatic configuration that may have to be done by hand in Debian. 1. Boot the 2.6 kernel. 2. Install the alsa-utils package, using aptitude or whatever. 3. As root, run alsaconf. 4. If alsaconf detects a PCI sound card, or you have an ISA card, see what happens with "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp". You should hear some white noise, which can be stopped with Ctrl-C. 5. If not, run alsamixer and check that at least Master and PCM are unmuted. 6. If none of that works, your problem is probably still soluble, but you'll have to post the relevant output of lsmod and lspci. -- PJR :-)
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