[lug] How do you make sound work?

[Ferdinand Schmid]

Did you ever try to configure ALSA first?  alsaconfig is the command for 
this.  I am using ALSA on many (SuSE) machines and never had any problems 
with it!  Laptops, old desktops, new desktops, ...

Ferdinand

On Monday 07 January 2002 01:14 pm, you wrote:
> Thanks for the replies.  I couldn't find anything about OSS
> independent of ALSA in dselect.  As for ALSA,
>
> glenn/$ sudo /etc/init.d/alsa start
> Starting ALSA sound driver (version none): no driver installed.
>
> The alsa-modules are not in the stable distro.  The alsa-sources won't
> configure:
>
> checking for kernel version... expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> expr: syntax error
> failed (probably missing /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h)
>
> I gather this is because I haven't configured my kernel sources---but
> these (2.2.17) are no longer in the stable distro, either.
>
> At this point ALSA is looking like a waste of time.  Linux is the
> strong, silent type anyway, right?
>
> Thanks, anyway!
> Glenn Murray
> http://www.mines.edu/~gmurray
>
> On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 rm at fabula.de wrote:
> > On Debian you first need to decide what OS level sound system
> > you want/need to use, OSS(either free or commercial) or ALSA.
> > Iff you want to use ALSA (my current pick) you only need to enable
> > basic sound support in the kernel but no compiled in sound card driver.
> > On a stock Debian system (i.e.  no custom kernel) it should be enough
> > to install the alsa modules package (alsa-modules-n.n.n-mmm, where n.n.n
> > is the version of your kernel package and mmm is the processor type
> > of your current kernel package). Otherwise get alsa-sources, install it,
> > read the documentation in /usr/share/doc/alsa-source and compile the
> > modules. On Debian ALSA is configured with files in /etc/alsa/ - have a
> > look at the sample file that come with the package.
> >
> > On trap with ALSA: when you insmod the modules the sound is muted by
> > default! Get some ALSA capable mixer app. (xaumix or the like) and unmute
> > it. This can also be done in the startup script with alsamixer (package
> > alsa-utils). Feel frere to contact me if you need more help/infos.
> >
> >
> >  Ralf Mattes
>
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