> Ok. Sounds tempting. Is there a way to know what I will gain based on > my hardware? http://www.alsa-project.org/ should be the way to find out. Although I have to admit that the documentation found overthere tends to be very incomplete. Especially if you are going to install alsa90 which you most probably will, if you have a recent soundcard.
> 00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-754 [DS-1E > Audio Controller] Sorry, go a maestro and a Soundblaster live, don't know about yours. > Sorry to be so clueless, but I was looking at the Debian alsa packages > (wondering how to install alsa). I see, for example, alsa-utils which > depends on alsa-modules. Here's something else that's not clear to me in > with the debian package system: I've built my own kernel: You want the alsa utils, base and since you've build your own kernel, you need the alsa source (most probably). > $ uname -a > > Linux laptop 2.4.18-xfs-laptop #1 Wed Aug 7 21:25:18 PDT 2002 i686 > unknown unknown GNU/Linux Now I hope you've built your kernel with make-kpkg, since that is one of the cool features Debian offers your. If you've downloaded the xfs patch with a debian packages it was installed in /usr/src/patches (somewhere). If you then specify 'patch_the_kernel := YES' in /etc/kernel-pkg.conf and execute the magic: make-kpkg --append_to_version -xfs-laptop --added_patches xfs --initrd kernel_image You just have to sit and wait. To make a package from your modules you would have to untar that modules (alsa in your case) so they end up in the modules directory. The do a make-kpkg --append_to_version -xfs-laptop --added_patches xfs --initrd modules_image It will apologize for being annoying and you should forgive it being that way ;-). Then, sit back and relax again. The hard part is configuring your /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 file. I'm pretty sure that google will bring you an answer if you search for your card in combination with alsa. Good luck, Jord
