Re: Moved to sarge: Great, but no sound!
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 05:39:50PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Louis Woods wrote:
> > I just got sound working on my desktop. I first installed the following
> > packages:
> >
> > 1) alsa-base
> > 2) alsa-oss
> > 3) alsa-utils
> [...]
> > Now my only problem is that (same as above) I have to rerun alsaconf
> > everytime I reboot. Any solutions to how this can be fixed would be grand.
>
> Well, why should anyone here guess for you? You give NO details about loaded
> modules before/after alsaconf or anything else!
>
> > Above it was mentioned to install "discover". When attempting to do so
> > apt wants to remove "discover1". What is the difference between
> > "discover" and "discover1"?
>
> apt-cache show discover discover1
>
> Ususally, getting rid of both of them fixes numerous problems: discover just
> sucks and you ususally do not need it. WHY would you want to do the same damn
> detection on every boot?
> Hotplug is ususally enough because you also use it at runtime and it does most
> of the things that discover does, too, only more integrated with the system.
>
> HS
I've been told that hotplug is specific to USB devices, that can be plugged in and out
dymanically.
discover detects the devices that are less dynamically attached (such as IDE
drives and sound card and the like, and makes wure the right modules are installed.
They do different things.
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