[Apparently I need a debconf-utils package, which isn't on the archive] I'm trying to get sound working on a Woody/KDE-unstable i386 box (which has a Soundblaster AWE64), using Alsa, and following tluxt's recent howto doc as amended by Jens Benecke - but I've hit a brick wall :
I installed the alsa-source deb, and recompiled the kernel : # apt-get install alsa-source [and selected my one & only sound card as "sbawe" during the package setup] # cd /usr/src # tar xvzf alsa-driver.tar.gz # cd linux # export MODULE_LOC=/usr/src/modules # export ALSA_CARDS=sbawe # make menuconfig [just to switch off all kernel sound options except basic sound support, which I set to "make as a module"] # make-kpkg kernel-image which all worked ok Jens's recipe then says to run "make-kpkg modules_image", but when I did that I got : WARNING: If you want to create the ALSA module package by make-kpkg or debian/rules, you need to install 'debconf-utils' package!! make[2]: *** [config] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver' make[1]: *** [kdist_image] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver' Module /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver failed. Hit return to Continue Well I was up for that, so I had a go : GBHBW205:/usr/src/linux# apt-get install debconf-utils Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: debconf-utils 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 117 not upgraded. Need to get 84.3kB of archives. After unpacking 180kB will be used. Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main debconf-utils 1.0.22 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debconf/debconf-utils_1.0.22_all .deb 404 Not Found E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? Huh ? Where's debconf-utils gone then ? Why would I get a 404 from the fetch ? Is the UK Debian mirror broken ? Thanks if anyone can explain. Nick Bristol, UK -- "Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps." -- Emo Phillips
