Mick,
I think you need to sit back for a minute and try and figure out what
exactly you are doing when someone tells you to do it, not just do it.
I am going to go back and explain a few commands that you have run
recently so that you know what you have been doing.
1. dpkg -P diald (This command will Purge the package diald. Purge means
get rid of all configuration files and everything...as opposed to remove
which will leave configuration files)
You ran this command and then it gave you an error saying
"debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome
debconf: (Unable to load Gnome -- is libgnome-perl installed?)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog"
The reason for this error was that your debconf was still set as the
Gnome frontend. If you had of run the 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' command
first and then run 'dpkg -P diald' you would not have received any
errors (the stuff about etc/diald' not empty so not removed is not an
error, just a warning to let you know that some things will need to be
deleted manually)
2. You don't need to run 'apt-get update && apt-get install <package>'
every time. Once a day is enough for 'apt-get update', even if you are
running unstable. This command merely updates the list of available
packages, which doesn't change that often (unless your running unstable
:)
3. The command 'uname -r' will output the kernel revision number, so
when I said to run 'apt-get install alsa-modules-`uname -r`' it would
have been the same as running 'apt-get install alsa-modules-2.2.2-586'
assuming you are running this on a 568. If I ran that same command I
would get 'apt-get install alsa-modules-2.4.20-686'. However the 'uname
-r' command needs to be surrounded by "backticks" which is on the key
next to the number 1 on your keyboard. The backticks will substitute the
command for the output the command generates.
4. There is no point in trying to get sound working 15 different ways,
and giving up each one halfway through. If your sound card is supported
by ALSA then use the ALSA way. When the 2.6 kernel is released it is
going to have ALSA as part of the kernel, so you may as well start using
it now.
To do this I would first upgrade your kernel to 2.4.16 (assuming you are
running wanting to run woody)as there are no alsa-modules for 2.4.18.
Simply run 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.16-586'..again assuming
that you are using a 586 ***substitute this with the achitecture type
you are using*** and then follow the prompts. It is very easy to do this
under debian.
Then after you have rebooted into the new kernel run 'apt-get install
alsa-base alsa-modules-`uname -r` alsa-utils' (remember to use the
backticks). You will then get a debconf screen asking you to select your
soundcard, once you have selected it, then choose OK.
You will now have your sound modules installed and configured.
Before you can use your sound you need to do 2 things...
1. set the volume as alsa automatically mutes all channels, to do this
run 'alsamixer' and use the arrow keys and the space bar to move around
and unmute the correct channels.
2. add yourself to the audio group by running 'adduser mick audio'
assuming mick is your username...you need to run this as root.
Log off!!! or even better reboot, just to make sure you have logged off.
when you log back in you will now have sound...
If you are still having problems then please run this command 'apt-get
install libesd-alsa0'. This gives you an ALSA version of the
Enlightenment Sound Daemon which is used by Gnome...the standard one
doesn't like to work with ALSA.
If you are still having problems, then please continue down this path,
it will work in the end...
Good luck,
Adam.
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 00:36, Mick Boda wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I haven't been wollowing in depths of sound hell. Instead, I had a dig
> around under my table and knocked together a P133MHz, 128MB ram, 2.5GB
> HDD 24x CD-Rom CRAPPER! I belted Debian onto, # out the security
> updates and set about manually installing blackbox, KDE, and alsa...
> (pronouced ULCER, no doubt!).
>
> The sound card in the crapper is a CM8330 ISA card, it's on the
> supported list at ALSA website.
>
> I ran the following command.
>
> apt-get install alsa-base
>
> I then did as David suggested and reverted to 'sndconfig' which ran, but
> also generated errors... I think I have narrowed the problem down....
> there are no sound modules configured on either the CRAPPER or my PC.
>
> The other thing is that I've been given alsa alsa-modules-2.4.20-i386,
> but I'm running the 2.2.2o kernel and it has .... you guessed it, umet
> dep probs. What version of alsa should I try instead, remebering that
> alsa base is "the newest" according to my apt-getting.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Mick
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