On Thursday 01 Jan 1970 12:59 am, you wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 11 2001 at 08:33:26pm +0000, andrew cooke wrote: > > - unless I run modprobe snd-card-ice1712, no modules are loaded. How can > > this be done automatically? I assume I have to put something in a file > > in /etc/modutils, but it's not clear what or where. > > Hmmm, I guess your best bet is to run > > /etc/init.d/alsa start > > However, please note that debian doesn't currently use alsa 0.9.X by > default; you probably need to download the package "alsa-source" and > compile it. The simplest way to do that in debian is to install one of the > kernel-source packages and use make-kpkg. The modules will be compiled and > installed (you need to install the new kernel as well!) and the comand > above will probably be run automatically at boot time. Hmmmm... don't know > if alsa 0.9 is only available in the testing distribution...
I had compiled alsa from source because I'm using my own patched (2.14.14 with preemptive and ext3) kernel and so presumed that I needed to recompile rather than load a .deb, but I really don't understand the relationship between alsa and the kernel - maybe I can just use a .deb. I believe there is a 0.9 package in testing, so I'll try that (and if not, I'll steal the init.d file before uninstalling ;-) > > - I've connected the soundcard o/p sockets to an amp, but hear nothing > > when I run the KDE CD player. > > The CD player doesn't output audio through the sound card, it manages > audio "by itself". Some audio cards have an internal connector that gets > the audio from the drive, and that's why you can hear and control the > volume of the CD through the sound card; but the m-audio doesn't have such > a connector AFAIK. But can't the cd player stream data from the CD and run it through the card's DAC? If I've got an expensive audio card I don't want to be listening to music through the scratty DACs that come with my OEM CD reader. Is there a suitable program for doing this, I do I need to grab a CD to disk and then play it from there?! > > Is there a simpler way to test the card? > > Yes, try playing a WAV or MP3 file. OK, that didn't work - but I'll try using the .debs in testing before worrying too much. Thanks for all the help, Andrew _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
