Your message dated Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:33:29 +0100
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and subject line Re: RFP: alsa-firmware -- firmware binaries used by each
alsa-firmware-loader program
has caused the Debian Bug report #597897,
regarding RFP: alsa-firmware -- firmware binaries used by each
alsa-firmware-loader program
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Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.23-4
Severity: important
Hello,
I'm not sure if it's the right package to report this bug, but hopefully,
you'll be interrested in.
Debian alsa stack is missing the alsa-firmware package. This non-free packages
contains a couple of firmware used by soundcards. For example, high EMU cards
are handled by a regular kernel but doesn't work at all because hana.fw
firmware is missing.
There's an RFP/ITP open here without any activity:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597897
A miling list thread without any conclusion:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2011/02/msg00046.html
A bug opened at Ubuntu BTS, no solution either (since 2005!!!):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/26294
And the download repository at alsa-projetc:
ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/firmware/
Finally, I found a package in medibuntu:
http://packages.medibuntu.org/natty/alsa-firmware.html
After installing this package, the EMU soundcard work as expected.
Thanks in advance,
Best regards, Adam.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii libasound2 1.0.23-3 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libncursesw5 5.9-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii linux-sound-base 1.0.23+dfsg-3 base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii module-init-tools 3.12-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii udev 167-3 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii whiptail 0.52.11-2 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
pn alsa-base <none> (no description available)
ii pciutils 1:3.1.7-9 Linux PCI Utilities
alsa-utils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Closing this bug as the licence issues with some of this firmware were
never resolved.
If you or anyone else are able to sort that out, you should submit the
firmware to linux-firmware.git first as that is now the upstream project
for firmware-nonfree.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Always try to do things in chronological order;
it's less confusing that way.
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