Debian User, 2002-Jan-06 17:41 -0800: > 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.
I haven't had much luck with the ALSA packages in potato either. I just download the ALSA source packages and compile them myself. http://www.alsa.org Get the drivers, utilities and libraries. jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
