You seem to have the right idea with #1 below. Compiling the modules seems to be a little tricky for some people, so I'll tell you how I handle it.
Install the alsa-source and other alsa debs. You'll have an 'alsa-driver.tar.gz' file in /usr/src that you'll have to extract yourself (I believe it's done because upgrading the source in-place will likely break it) Now go into your kernel source tree (kernel-source-2.2.17?), run the config (make menuconfig or make xconfig) and make sure you have sound support marked as module, and none of the card-specific stuff selected. Save your kernel config and then run: make-kpkg clean make-kpkg modules-clean make-kpkg [--revision=<revision#>] configure make-kpkg modules make-kpkg kernel-image And the alsa drivers build will complain if you don't have pgp installed, but I just ignore that. No idea if the live will be happy, but I'm running an awe64 and a sb16 on an SMP machine. Hope this helps. On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Svante Signell wrote: > I've finally taken the time to install a Soundblaster Live card on > my SMP-box. Trying to switch from oss- to to alsa drivers at the same time > creates > problems. > > Background is: > 1. SMP kernel compiled from kernel-source-2.2.17. > 2. Download of binary (non SMP) kernel-image-2.2.17 is set on hold. > 3. Installed alsa packages: alsa-base, alsa-utils, alsaconf > > Trying to install alsa-modules-2.2.17 to get access to the binary > modules, such as snd-card-emu10k1.o the lock on kernel-image is > released, downloading the (non SMP) kernel-image!! > > What to do? > 1. Download alsa-source-0.5.9c-4.deb and compile. If this > is the recommended way to do this: how? Is there something > simular to make-kpkg available? > 2. Download alsa-*.tar.gz from http://www.alsa-project.org and > compile from source. > 3. Download emu10k1.tar.gz from http://opensource.creative.com and > compile from source. > 4. Skip the whole thing, and reinstall the old SB16 :-( > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >