Greetings fellow Debianites, Sorry, this may be a little long winded. For the past couple of days I have been trying off and on to get the ALSA drivers setup on my Woody box.
The computer is a IBM Intellistation Z-Pro (6866-60U). Because I never had sound installed on this machine, I never had the SOUNDCORE module loaded as part of my kernel. When I started this venture I was using a custom kernel that I made to support my 5 disk SCSI RAID5 LVM disk setup. So I built a new kernel that had SOUNDCORE support in addition to my other needs. I have the 2.4.18 debian package source for woody. Ran: make mrproper make xconfig make-kpkg kernel-image When I built the kernel "the Debian way", for some reason my network card (eepro100) could never get an IP address. So, I built the kernel "the manual way". Ran: make mrproper make xconfig make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install This worked wonderfully and I didn't have to figure out what was going on with make-kpkg. So now I have a custom 2.4.18 kernel with SCSI+RAID5+LVM and now soundcore support as a module. When I installed the Debian packages for ALSA using dselect, I could not get it to configure properly with my sound card. I then went to alsa's site (http://www.alsa-project.org) and followed their directions to install the latest stable release 0.94 of the Driver, Library, Utilities, and Tools. I now can see that these modules are loaded... lsmod shows: <snip> Module Size Used by Tainted: PF snd-seq-oss 23104 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 2984 0 [snd-seq-oss] snd-seq 36236 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss 36516 0 snd-mixer-oss 11232 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-intel8x0 15168 0 snd-pcm 54624 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0] snd-timer 13920 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-page-alloc 4496 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm] snd-ac97-codec 32816 0 [snd-intel8x0] snd-mpu401-uart 2848 0 [snd-intel8x0] snd-rawmidi 12384 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 3764 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd 27136 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] soundcore 3492 5 [snd] </snip> I launch alsamixer and it shows my sound card information at the top. So, it seems that everything is installed correctly and working. I then installed XMMS using dselect from the stable tree. This prompted me to install all sorts of stuff. Libasound1, libesd-alsa0, xmms, esound, some documentiation. Now when I launch XMMS as a user, trying to play a mp3 brings up the message: Please check that: 1. You have the correct output plug-in selected 2. No other programs is blocking the soundcard 3. Your soundcard is configured properly Now when I run XMMS as root, it works just fine, plays my music just fine. Is this a permissions issue with the sound card device(s)? If so, what is the best (read most secure) way to enable access for my user account? Any ideas why make-kpkg kernel-image does not work correctly with my Ethernet card? (I realize this is a different post entirely, just thought I would bring it up.) Any help is always appreciated. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]