I need assistance getting the ALSA sound drivers installed on Potato - 2.2r4.
I recently switched my old SuSE 6.3 box to Debian using the 2.2r4 CD images. Everything is going swimmingly, with only a few, minor issues. On my old SuSE installation I was using the ALSA sound drivers with my Creative/Ensoniq Audio PCI128 card (Ens 1371). These were compiled and installed manually. I now want to do this on my new Debian installation (and do it the Debian way). Unfortunately the current state of ALSA on Stable/Potato seems to be a total mess. Selecting any ALSA module via DSELECT triggers mutually unresolvable installation rules. Worse, if you've already installed other sound drivers on a working system, you cannot uninstall them without triggering cascading module removal which strips out many already hard-fought installation battles (basically anything that uses sound). Regardless, I intend to put ALSA on my system this week -- and do it the Debian way -- _come high or hell water_. The only problem is that I am not a Debian expert. I will document this so that others can benefit from my experience. But I need somebody to assist me in getting the Debian bits correct. I would appreciate it if somebody would volunteer to collaborate with me on this. My current situation is a working Debian system with sound compiled into the kernel using standard kernel drivers. I am running E and Gnome on X. CPU/MB: PII-400 on Asus P2B-F Sound card: Creative/Ensoniq AudioPCI 128 (ens1371). Distribution: Stable/Potato 2.2r4 Kernel: 2.2.19 compiled from source (via make-kpkg) I have perused the debian-user mailing list and read ALSA-specific inquiries and responses. I'm ready to go anytime. Thank you very much. Regards, Arne Flones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
