[lug] How do you make sound work?

[rm at fabula.de]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:01:11PM -0700, John Hernandez wrote:
> Generally speaking, sound is configured at a lower level than KDE (or 
> even X for that matter).
> 
> Most distros make the sound card drivers available as kernel modules. 
> In your case, it should be emu10k1.  To make sound work, you should 
> have the emu10k1 module loaded (assuming it's available in your 
> /lib/modules tree).  For Debian, I think you can use 'modconf' to get 
> it done, but I'm not too sure about that.  More generally, 'modprobe 
> emu10k1' may be the ticket.  'lsmod' shows which modules are currently 
> loaded.  In some cases, I think you may need to provide extra 
> parameters in /etc/modules.conf.

Yes, modconf will work for the OSS sound modules (that are part of the
kernel source tree). For ALSA i think you need the alsa-modules or
alsa-sources packages. 

  Ralf
> -John
>