cothrige wrote: > Having been a fairly long-time Slackware user, since 8.1, and being > somewhat unhappy with some compatibility problems with Gnome apps and > that distro, I decided to see if Debian would work for me. I don't > have high-speed internet access and so used a work computer which I > have access to periodically to download and burn the first two discs > of Testing. This seemed a solid place to start and I was confident > that two discs would get a working system up. > > I was not surprised to find that basically I was right, though > surprised at some of what was left off of these two discs, eg. alsa, X > headers and libraries, emacs, etc. But, overall, things went well and > after tinkering about with the installation I soon got a working > system with the basics in place. > > After downloading and installing the alsa-1.0.8 packages I ran > alsaconf and had the sound up and running. However, I discovered > later that if I rebooted the sound never reloaded and I had to run > alsaconf again. This had happened to me some time back with Slack 9.1 > and I managed after some work to get it going, but I cannot really > recall how. I fear that with Debian I am unsure of where to start. > The modules.conf file is a bit of a shocker for me as it is nothing > like that of Slackware, and has a great deal more going on. I cannot > really tell if it has what I need in it at all. The > /etc/modprobe.d/sound file, which I am not familiar with at all, is > there and has a reference to my card, es1688. Other than that I > haven't a clue what it does and cannot be sure what it should have in > it. > > I have noticed that at the end of the boot process a brief reference > to alsa is seen, and something along the lines of "no modules loaded." > And in fact nothing is. An lsmod shows nothing related to snd at all, > and there is no mixer to adjust. So my situation is not a muted card > or pcm but in fact a total absence of sound. Only running alsaconf > again with each boot will make sound usable. I have tried a number of > google searches only to find numerous muted cards and loaded modules > without sound, but can't seem to locate any with no modules being > loaded at all. Is there a step or action after alsaconf which will > make this permament and reload the modules with each boot? Am I > forgetting or overlooking something stupidly obvious?
alsaconf will load the modules that you need but it won't add them to your /etc/modules file to have them load after a reboot. Do "lsmod" before and after alsaconf and put the modules that were added by alsaconf in /etc/modules. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
