Re: Setting up Debian with sound

1999-07-23 Thread STrandahl
I have sound! I am now able to play a CD through the speakers on my PC. I currently have a working boot diskette with sound compiled into the kernel. I had several problems which turned out to be due to bad diskettes. The next step will be fine-tuning the process. As you suspected, I learne

Re: Setting up Debian with sound

1999-07-22 Thread Bill Leach
Someone has posted a sequence of steps to use the build a kernel and in looking them over they do appear correct however... Install the kernel build package called "kernel-package" (in slink it is debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/misc/kernel-package_6.05.deb for the PC). This package is THE w

Re: Setting up Debian with sound

1999-07-21 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> >From the docs, it appears that my sound card has a good chance of working. > I'm going to give compiling the kernel a shot (since I don't have spare $ > lying around). I'm going to try to find the kernel package on my Debian CD. > > I haven't found any reference to RTFineM in the documentati

Re: Setting up Debian with sound

1999-07-21 Thread STrandahl
>From the docs, it appears that my sound card has a good chance of working. I'm going to give compiling the kernel a shot (since I don't have spare $ lying around). I'm going to try to find the kernel package on my Debian CD. I haven't found any reference to RTFineM in the documentation. You m

Re: Setting up Debian with sound

1999-07-13 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > Yes, It's PnP. It is listed as "Crystal PnP CODEC" In that case there are three ways to go: 1. Get OSS (OpenSound Software). It's a program that initializes the PnP soundcards and enables you to play sound through them. It also costs $20 2. Use isapnp and compile the sound support ito the 2.

Re: Setting up Debian with sound

1999-07-13 Thread STrandahl
Yes, It's PnP. It is listed as "Crystal PnP CODEC"

Re: Setting up Debian with sound

1999-07-12 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> I have set up hamm on my IBM Aptiva (model 2153-E2U). I would like to get > the built-in sound card working, but it appears I will have to recompile the > kernel. Since I am a LINUX newbie, this is not a trivial task. Sorry, there is no other way. But compiling your own kernel would be a goo

Setting up Debian with sound

1999-07-12 Thread STrandahl
I have set up hamm on my IBM Aptiva (model 2153-E2U). I would like to get the built-in sound card working, but it appears I will have to recompile the kernel. Since I am a LINUX newbie, this is not a trivial task. My question is basically this - Is there an easier way and if not, has anyone g