Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am working on getting sound working on my computer. I have never had > sound working before, so lots of things might be wrong, most probably, I > don't know what I'm doing, but other things, too.
Read the sound howto and alsa howto: http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/guide/ > So far I have determined that my sound card uses CM8738 chip and the > driver for it is cmpci.o which is beging loaded. But... > During boot, a message flashes by that says that snd.o can't be found, > and hence is not loaded. > snd.o seems to be part of alsa, according to a search of the data base > at debian.org. In that database however, the only hits are for alsa > packages that are supposed to work with kernel 2.4.xx and I am running > kernel 2.2.20 vanilla. ,----[ alsa 0.9.0rc3 INSTALL ] | The ALSA driver replaces the OSS/Free driver. The OSS/Free driver is | present in current Linux kernels (2.2). Since version 0.4.0, ALSA has | supported only 2.2+ kernels. The 2.0 kernels are no longer supported. You | must compile the kernel with sound support (you do not need to select any | of the other sound modules apart from sound support). `---- So 2.2.20 should work. I am using 2.4.18 ... > I look in my /lib/modules and in dselect and see that some alsa stuff is > installed. I try to configure it, and get puzzling results. In > particular, my sound chip is not mentioned as a choise in the pick list > for chips/cards. CM8330 is there, which is a different chip at the > C-Media web site. If this is your card: C-Media CMI8738 then it is supported by alsa 0.9.0rc3. > I look in dselect to see what alsa components might usefully be > installed. I find no packages that mention 2.2.xx explicitly, but many > that mention 2.4.xx, and many different flavors of 2.4.xx, too. Quite frankly i find the x+10 alsa packages disturbing. 3 differnet versions, none really usefull (to me). I grabed the the source packages from http://www.alsa-project.org/ compiled them and enjoy my mp3s. You need a fully configured kernel source tree for this. TschÖ Udo. -- Now playing: Dead Can Dance - Karath (Live) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
