[lug] How do you make sound work?

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

Yeah, sndconfig does not appear to be available as a Debian package.  I
downloaded the rpm and used alien to install it on my Debian system.
Worked like a charm.

Dhruva

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 04:17:43PM -0700, quoth Glenn Murray:
> Thanks for the response.  When I had a RH5.2, I was able to get
> Linus's lesson on pronouncing Linux to come out of the speakers.
> However, sndconfig does not appear to be a Debian package, so it must
> work some other way.  It seems there should be a KDE way to do this...
> 
> Glenn Murray
> http://www.mines.edu/~gmurray
> 
> On 4 Jan 2002, Hugh Brown wrote:
> 
> > Assuming RH, then go to a non-X session (init 3 as root from a terminal)
> > and then run sndconfig.  In the past, when I have tried sndconfig from X
> > it locks up the machine (there's a note to that effect and they really
> > meant it).  That should configure your sound card and load the
> > appropriate modules (assuming it is a supported sound card).
> > 
> > Hugh
> > 
> > On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 16:55, Glenn Murray wrote:
> > > Since I seem to be the only one asking questions today...
> > > 
> > > How do I make sound work?  I have a dual boot machine running Debian
> > > 2.2 and KDE.  The sound works under Windoze, but the best I can get
> > > out of Debian is a system beep.  I have /dev/audio and did a o+rw on
> > > it, but the KDE sound configuration test doesn't make a bleep.
> > > 
> > > The system reports the sound card as:
> > > 
> > > CT4780 SBLive! Value (Multimedia audio controller)