Re: Configuring AC97 sound

2003-11-11 Thread Kent West
David Jardine wrote: But this brings up a question of principle. It's a genuine question, because I'm quite inexperienced in all this. - The manpage doesn't mention your way of doing it. - The preamble to the actual adduser script doesn't mention it. - The script starts by checking the command

Re: Configuring AC97 sound

2003-11-11 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:35:22PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > --- David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 04:33:31PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > >> > >> > >>>probably that you're not in the "audio" group. Add yourself to this > >>>group with a command like "addgroup ly

Re: Configuring AC97 sound

2003-11-10 Thread Kent West
--- David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 04:33:31PM -0600, Kent West wrote: probably that you're not in the "audio" group. Add yourself to this group with a command like "addgroup lynn audio" as root. Then log Shouldn't that be adduser lynn audio Either will work,

Re: Configuring AC97 sound

2003-11-10 Thread Kent West
Lynn W. wrote: I got the sound working on my Dell GX200, which uses an onboard Intel AD1881 AC97 (AC'97) audio device, by reinstalling Debian 3.0 Woody and typing bf24 at the boot: prompt after restarting with the first Debian CD. At the "install kernel and driver modules" screen (which you can als

Re: Configuring AC97 sound

2003-11-10 Thread Lynn W.
I got the sound working on my Dell GX200, which uses an onboard Intel AD1881 AC97 (AC'97) audio device, by reinstalling Debian 3.0 Woody and typing bf24 at the boot: prompt after restarting with the first Debian CD. At the "install kernel and driver modules" screen (which you can also get to at an

Re: Configuring AC97 sound

2003-11-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:27:45 -0800 (PST), "Lynn W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No annoyance at all :) > Vaguely--I think the commands you describe relate to displaying the > modules and setting them up to be used/recognized? My question is > probably more along

Re: Configuring AC97 sound

2003-11-10 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 04:33:31PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Lynn W. wrote: > >How do I activate sound so I can play music files in KDE using XMMS? > > > >I did a basic install of Debian 3.0 Woody, and after successfully > >configuring web server type stuff, decided to see how to get a desktop > >e

Re: Configuring AC97 sound

2003-11-10 Thread Lynn W.
No annoyance at all :) Vaguely--I think the commands you describe relate to displaying the modules and setting them up to be used/recognized? My question is probably more along the lines of where do I get these? Do I have to find source and compile/make these? Do they work with 2.2 kernels? Am I b

Re: Configuring AC97 sound

2003-11-10 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 22:41, Lynn W. wrote: > Various Google searches suggest installing modules ac97_codec.o, sound > and soundcore, but I have no idea where to find these or how to install > these (they do not seem to be on the first Debian Woody CD and not in > apt-get). At the risk of annoyin

Re: Configuring AC97 sound

2003-11-10 Thread Lynn W.
Thanks for the response...! Doing a lsmod shows I have no audio modules installed. All I've got is af_packet. I went back and ran modconf to see if I could add modules, but there were no audio ones listed; just block, net, fs, cdrom and misc (no, nothing useful in misc). Is this because I am using

Re: Configuring AC97 sound

2003-11-10 Thread Kent West
Lynn W. wrote: How do I activate sound so I can play music files in KDE using XMMS? I did a basic install of Debian 3.0 Woody, and after successfully configuring web server type stuff, decided to see how to get a desktop environment up and running out of curiosity. So I installed x-window-system,

Configuring AC97 sound

2003-11-10 Thread Lynn W.
How do I activate sound so I can play music files in KDE using XMMS? I did a basic install of Debian 3.0 Woody, and after successfully configuring web server type stuff, decided to see how to get a desktop environment up and running out of curiosity. So I installed x-window-system, kde, kdm and xm