On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Vic wrote: > sorry for the dumb question, but does anyone think > that these alsa things will ever be made easier to > install? Sorry, man. I know how you feel. What I **can** tell you is how I installed my SB Live! via alsa. I'll give step-by-step directions for anyone who wants them. And feel free to repost these directions on the Internet; I'd like credit, but it's not **necessary**. Here goes: <NOTE: If you see <TAB>, it means press the tab key> 0) MAKE SURE THERE ARE NO SOUND DRIVERS CURRENTLY RUNNING. 0) "lsmod" will show the currently installed modules. 0) Use the program "rmmod" to remove all drivers with the word "snd" or "sound" in the name 1) Go to www.alsa-project.org in lynx (or a different browser) 2) Get the most recent versions of ALSA-driver, ALSA-lib, and ALSAUTILS 3) "mkdir /tmp/ALSA" 4) Move the downloads from the alsa-project web site to /tmp/ALSA (and cd there) 5) "tar yxvf alsa-driver*" 6) "tar yxvf alsa-lib*" 7) "tar yxvf alsa-utils*" 7.5) rm -f *tar.bz2 8) cd alsa-driver<TAB> 9) ./configure && make && make install && ./snddevices 10) cd ../alsa-lib<TAB> 11) ./configure && make && make install 12) cd ../alsa-util<TAB> 13) ./configure && make && make install Now, just one more thing: Put the following at the **end** of your /etc/conf.modules or /etc/modules.conf file: (You will find your system has only one of the above files in it) <begin part of modules configuration file> # ALSA CONFIG # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1 # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 # OSS/Free portion - card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss # END ALSA SNIPPET <end modules configuration file addition> That will set your system up for ALSA and an SB Live! Now, the final step: >From any console, run "alsamixer". Play with the mixer settings, as everything's muted by default. Then run "alsactl store" to save your settings. To get back to those at any moment, type "alsactl restore." I hope this made sense. >From Linux with love, Asheesh Laroia.
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