Re: Debian Linux 7 and Realtek soundcards
On 05/11/2014 09:53 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have this weekend, managed to install Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce version
> onto a laptop computer.
>
> However, the sound does not work.
>
> In searching, I have found that the laptop apparently has a Realtek
> soundcard (and, an inbuilt Intel something soundcard thing).
>
> With Debian having eliminated "non-free" stuff from the official release
> packages, I realize that, somewhere (it is not easy to find, from the
> Debian web site), "firmware" ISO's are available, that can install
> "non-free" hardware drivers.
>
> I am therefore wondering whether, somewhere, packages exist (.deb
> packages, that make installation relatively easy for those of us not
> skilled "in the black arts"), for the hardware drivers that may be on
> the firmware ISO's.
You can search for packages what contains word "firmware" e.g.
linux-firmware. As far as I know there is not firmware package for
Realtek sound cards. Maybe you have to execute the following command as
root:
# alsactl init
sometimes it helps.
> I do not know whether the firmware ISO's allow a user to choose which
> desktop environment is installed, and the procedure that I found, for
> dealing with the .tar.bz files from the Realtek web site, seem too
> complicated.
>
> Thank you in anticipation, for constructive assistance.
>
> --
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> ..............
>
> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
> you'll know what the answer means."
> - Deep Thought,
> Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
> "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
> A Trilogy In Four Parts",
> written by Douglas Adams,
> published by Pan Books, 1992
> ....................................................
>
>
Best regards
Georgi
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