[lug] How do you make sound work?

[Glenn Murray]

AARGH.  I *have* a SoundBlaster card:

CT4780 SBLive! Value (Multimedia audo controller)

as reported by KDE.  I'm probably missing something obvious, but not
so obvious that it doesn't work when I boot to Windoze.

Thanks,
Glenn Murray
http://www.mines.edu/~gmurray

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Timothy C. Klein wrote:

> * Nate Duehr (nate at natetech.com) wrote:
> > Haha.. cheat.
> > 
> > Find a real SoundBlaster card on Ebay cheap and type...
> > 
> > modprobe sb
> > 
> > :-)
> > 
> > Okay this might not be accurate, it was a LONG time ago I set up sound on
> > Debian but with the right sound cards the standard OSS support in the kernel
> > works a heck of a lot better than messing around with ALSA, IMHO.
> > 
> > Actually I think in the Debian machine it has an Ensoniq AudioPCI or
> > something equally as gross, but the kernel module loaded instantaneously and
> > worked first time out!
> > 
> 
> I second that.  I have never been able to get Alsa to work right in
> Debian.  But the kernel module for my SB Live loads just fine, and works
> without it.  You could try dowloading SndConfig (packaged in unstable,
> don't remember if it is in stable).  It will monkey with the needed
> module alias for you, after trying to auto-detect your card.
> 
> Tim
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