Re: sound problems on debian

[Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu>]

References: <[🔎] E1HJD4v-0005iL-00@smtp08.web.de>

I have no sound on my Etch system with alsa-1.0.13.  The sound is on the
Intel motherboard (chipset ICH7).

On Mon Feb 12 06:48:27 2007, steef wrote:
> somewhere i saw you use alsadriver 1.0.11 &&. that sounddriver of
> hda_intel can give some pronlems for reasons i will not explain here,
> because in the newest alsa-drivers this problem is solved.
>
> so: my advice to you: install your kernel-headers if you did not do
> allready so (1)
> than get the newest alsa-drivers (1.0.14) from their site and the
> alsa-libs and alsa-utils (2).
>
> compile the drivers as root into a (new) directory /usr/src/alsa (3) and
> install snd-hhda-intel into your kernel  (4) (i assume a 2.6.x.y kernel)
> compile and install as root alsa-libs and als-utils in your
> home-directory (5). that should do the trick.

I'm not certain this is the problem, although sound does work from the XP
partition.  But I thought updating alsa was worth a shot.  So I just tried to
install alsa-driver, alsa-lib, and alsa-utils, all the newest versions
(1.0.14rc2) from alsa-project.org.  The first two compiled successfully but
gave conflicts when I tested their installation.  I tried this with
checkinstall from sid.

When I ran for alsa-driver

  checkinstall -D make install-modules

I got the following conflict:
  trying to ovewrite `/lib/modules/2.6.18-3-686/modules.isapnpmap, which 
    is also in package linux-image-2.6.18-3-686

When I ran for alsa-lib

  checkinstall -D make install

I got the following conflict:
  trying to ovewrite `/usr/bin/nm`, which is also in package binutils

alsa-utils wouldn't compile because it needs the newer alsa-lib.

Two questions:
  1. Any ideas how to install alsa-1.0.14 without screwing up something else?
  2. Should I also install newer alsa-lib-plugins or alsa-tools?

Thanks.  Maybe I should just live without sound until 1.0.14 makes it to
etch.