Re: No sound with new install

[Nick White <nick.white@durham.ac.uk>]

Hi Keith,

On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 07:50:18PM +0100, Keith McKenzie wrote:
> Download the latest alsa-driver package from alsa-project.org.

I did this, then installed linux-headers, and did
./configure && make && sudo make install

After rebooting, whatdya know, it works! Horrah!

Thanks a lot everybody for helping me to track down the issue.

There are a couple of questions I have left:

Firstly, should I ask the backports project to backport the new
version of alsa-drivers?  Are there any guidelines on what criteria
they use to decide what to backport? Obviously it would be nicer to
use distro-provided packages of some description, for security
updates, no problems between kernel versions, etc.

Secondly, I checked what the Realtek driver was, as listed on
http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA#Alternative_Method, and it turns out it's
just a repackaged copy of the alsa-driver tarball from
http://alsa-project.org. So it probably makes sense to update the
wiki to make the "alternative method" roughly just "download the
upstream alsa-driver tarball, make it, and restart". Can anyone edit
the wiki? Are there people 'responsible' for certain pages who
should be consulted before changing stuff?

Thanks again folks, very much.

Nick