I recently migrated to Debian potato from RedHat, and I am thrilled, with the exception of my sound card setup. I haven't been able to get it to work, and the online documentation I've seen is confusing and contradictory. The Debian install manual doesn't mention sound at all, and Linuxdoc recommends recompiling the kernel. Another says I just have to have the correct modules installed and activated.
Additionally, these instructions are for the free OSS drivers, which are fine but I want to use ALSA. Can I use ALSA without running OSS, or does ALSA need OSS to run? I have apt-get installed the ALSA packages, but it doesn't yet work. My desired goal is to get my AWE64 working under ALSA. Can anyone point me in the right direction to accomplish this? Thanks... -Jim
