On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 21:57:28 -0400
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi there,
>
> I'm just getting started on linux and wanted to get the sound working
> on my machine. I've found it pretty difficult so far. I am running
> Debian Woody Gnu/Linux with kernel 2.4.18 plus a custom nvidia module
> to drive the video card. I want to enable the onboard sound, which
> is a Realtek ALC650 - AC-link, supports AC'97 2.2; but underneath it
> seems to be based on a VIA chipset, the via8223, and is plug and play
> (at least according to sndconfig). Sndconfig recognized the card but
> gave an error (no error message) when it tried to use the linux
> driver to run it. SO, since I want to ultimately do some audio work
> on the machine, I thought I would go straight to ALSA. According to
> the soundcard matrix, ALSA should support the card (I think).
>
> But I'm just not sure what to do next. I installed the alsa .deb
> packages from debian/UNSTABLE , which as far as I can tell are from
> 0.9.0.rc1.
If you have a MSI kt3 mainboard you must use at least ALSA 0.9.0rc2 IIRC
using the snd-via8233 module. After unpacking the ALSA driver tarball you'll
get an INSTALL file which is up to date. I remember something about in
Debian you don't edit /etc/modules.conf directly but edit /etc/modules...
> The ALSA how-to's all seem to be written for 0.4 or 0.5
> at best, and also for kernel 2.2.x; and they haven't yet worked out
> for me (that is, I've tried to do what they say, but always without
> success. Is there someone out there who is using 2.4 and who can
> tell me what bits need to be included in the kernel itself, what
> modules need to be included dand excluded, and what bits of prep I'll
> need to do afterwards to make the sound actually work? Or can
> someone point me to an up-to-date howto? I'm an absolute Linux
> newbie and, though I'm proud of having struggled through my first
> kernel recompile already, I'm at the limits of my technical capacity
> here.
You only need soundcore as a module (compiled in the kernel is also
possible as far as I know), you don't need anything else about sound
in the kernel configuration, although compling OSS/free drivers _as
modules_ shouldn't hurt as long as those modules are not inserted in
the running kernel ;)
> whew. thanks for any help you can give. I _want_ to free my
> softwaqre; but it's harder than I thought! thanks,
> matt
The custom nvidia module is not free in the sense of free speech
(Open Source) but only in the sense of free beer (no money) :) HTH,
-Frans
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