Re: soundcard recognized but not accessible
On 2008-10-01 11:07 +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> recently i installed lenny on a relatively dated machine. it seems to
> work fine, but i have problems with getting the sound working.
>
> the card is recognized by the kernel (part of the lspci -v follows)
> 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24
The driver for this card has been removed from the Debian kernel, as it
needs binary-only firmware.
> am i missing something obvious here? the module list doesn't seem to
> have any module related to sound (apart from pcspkr)...
Not very surprising.
> i'd be really grateful for any help.
There are several possibilities:
- Buy a different sound card.
- Compile your own kernel from kernel.org (*not* from the Debian
linux-source-2.6.x package).
- Build the driver from the ALSA project. You need the alsa-driver
package:
ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.17.tar.bz2.
Do *not* use Debian's alsa-source package, since that has the firmware
removed as well.
- Use a Linux distribution that is less picky about legal issues and
includes the driver and the firmware in the kernel.
Sven
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