Hi, I've had sound and MIDI working great on my box for the longest time with just the plain, non-alsa sound stuff (the OSS drivers?), and then I installed a package which also required the alsa-base package. Since then I haven't been able to use MIDI, and I suspect the digital audio I get is still using the old drivers, and ALSA is simply busted on my box.
So are there any docs somewhere on how to properly install a complete ALSA setup? BTW, I have a AWE64 value sound card (which, again, worked completely prior to alsa-base). I think ALSA is busted here because I get stuff like this on bootup: AWE32: not detected Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 4.16 detected OK (220) or when I finish running alsaconf: Loading driver: Starting ALSA sound driver (version none): no driver installed. Setting the PCM volume to 100% and the Master output volume to 50% The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system. Could not initialize the mixer, the card was probably not detected correctly. I suspect that I might need to install alsadriver (which is one of the alsa-modules-* debs), but then I can't use the kernel I built myself (which does have AWE and sound support, as it works without ALSA), or rather I'm weary of having apt-get mess around with my kernel bits. -- Maciej Kalisiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac
