Ah beautiful topic..
Problem: Trying to install a standard sound system
(got some apps that require OSS) under debian.
Quesion: What's the status of Linux and Sound, is there a standard
or many projects saying they are trying to be standard ?
(now read what fun Ive had - suggestions comments)
I'm using Debian Woody, I have a bog standard Vibra16C snd card.
My understanding of Sound under Linux is
* ALSA
* OSS - is OSS a standard and ALSA supports it??
* sndconfig - The Redhat one (where the heck does that fit in? It worked i
know it's redhat)
I tried ALSA (dowloaded the deb packages, as far as I could tell I
got the right ones, but I can't find doco on this, much other than installing
all
ALSA stuff myself, (which I don't mind doing, but I have to make
or use someones .deb package afetr I get it working))
**** sndconfig ****
Installed, ran it, selected my card, chose the default IO stuff, out came
sound.
(apt-get install sndconfig) - I hear Linus "speaking" his stuff :-)
**** ALSA ****
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estima:~# dpkg -l 'alsa*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii alsa-base 0.9+0beta12-3 ALSA driver common files
un alsa-base-0.4 <none> (no description available)
un alsa-modules <none> (no description available)
ii alsa-utils 0.9.0beta12-1 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (utils)
ii alsaconf 0.4.3b-4 ALSA configurator
un alsaconf-0.4 <none> (no description available)
un alsadriver <none> (no description available)
un alsalib <none> (no description available)
un alsalib0.1.3 <none> (no description available)
un alsalib0.3.0 <none> (no description available)
un alsalib0.3.2 <none> (no description available)
un alsautils <none> (no description available)
estima:~#
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I looked at alsadriver but it is for a different (earlier kernel than mine)
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estima:~# apt-get install alsadriver
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package alsadriver is a virtual package provided by:
alsa-modules-2.4.16-k7 0.9+0beta10+1+2.4.16+1
alsa-modules-2.4.16-k6 0.9+0beta10+1+2.4.16+1
alsa-modules-2.4.16-686-smp 0.9+0beta10+1+2.4.16+1
alsa-modules-2.4.16-686 0.9+0beta10+1+2.4.16+1
alsa-modules-2.4.16-586tsc 0.9+0beta10+1+2.4.16+1
alsa-modules-2.4.16-586 0.9+0beta10+1+2.4.16+1
alsa-modules-2.4.16-386 0.9+0beta10+1+2.4.16+1
You should explicitly select one to install.
E: Package alsadriver has no installation candidate
estima:~# uname -a
Linux estima.thebuckland 2.4.18-586tsc #1 Sun Apr 14 10:57:57 EST 2002 i686
unknown
estima:~#
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I attempted to then config alsa using alsaconf.
Needless to say, it fails quite well (otherwise you wouldn't see this email)
---------->8---------->8---------->8---------->8---------->8------
estima:~# alsaconf
Initializing ... please wait ...
modprobe: Can't locate module snd
cat: /proc/asound/version: No such file or directory
expr: syntax error
(^C) before svgalib Gui pops up
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I think I have some 'version problems' here. The Alsaconf is 0.4.3b-4. The
first message
says I need 0.5.0 DO I get the ALSA deb packages from somewhere else ? (other
than ftp.debian..)
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