I have no sound on my recent installation of Debian etch with alsa-1.0.13. I
do have sound when I boot off the XP partition. The sound is on the Intel
motherboard (chipset ICH7). In the debian-user mailing list, it was recently
stated that the hda-intel driver for alsa-1.0.11 had some problems. (It
didn't comment on 1.0.13.) So I thought I'd try to bring up 1.0.14. To
preserve the Debian package management, I used checkinstall.
1.0.14 isn't available from Debian yet. So I tried to install alsa-driver,
alsa-lib, and alsa-utils, all the newest versions (1.0.14rc2) from
alsa-project.org. The first two compiled successfully but gave conflicts
when I tested their installation.
When I ran for alsa-driver
checkinstall -D make install-modules
I got the following conflict:
trying to ovewrite `/lib/modules/2.6.18-3-686/modules.isapnpmap, which \
is also in package linux-image-2.6.18-3-686
When I ran for alsa-lib
checkinstall -D make install
I got the following conflict:
trying to ovewrite `/usr/bin/nm`, which is also in package binutils
alsa-utils wouldn't compile because it needs the newer alsa-lib.
I'd appreciate any advice on where to go from here. I don't know what might
get screwed up if I overwrite modules.isapnpmap or /usr/bin/nm. I'm also not
even certain that updating alsa would fix the sound problem. If necessary, I
could just live without sound until 1.0.14 makes it to etch.
Thanks.
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