Hi, I am pretty new to debian (two months now since I ditched Mandrake) and I was able to do the switch thanks to the hardware detection that now really seems to work... Most everything works just fine and sarge is just as up-to date as I like it.
Nevertheless there are a few things which I would like to fix, the topmost being alsa instead of OSS. I have just installed alsa (well I think I have). What I did was to: apt-get alsa-base alsa-headers alsa-oss alsa-utils alsaplayer alsaplayer-alsa alsaplayer-common alsaplayer-gtk alsaplayer-oss On my debian sarge with 2.6.7-1-686 Standard Kernel. I don't know, I expected apt to ask me to remove oss or configure alsa, so that all apps use it instead of oss. But no questions were asked and alsa was installed without a hitch and without a question. I tried xmms with the alsa output plugin: it didn't work. So then I ran alsaconf. Which has let me choose my soundcard and so I did. It then told me that alsa is ready to run. Nevertheless: xmms and alsaplayer play but no sound. I googled a bit and found that you may have to do some more things like: add the following in /etc/modutils/aliases for my soundcard (it's an intel soundcard in an IBM Thinkpad t40p): alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore options snd major=116 cards_limit=4 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/dsp* snd-pcm-oss alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 alias snd-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-slot-0 snd-slot-0 Wich I also did. I rebooted (just to be on the save side) and started Gnome, I again tried to run XMMS with the alsa output plugin, but it didn't work. Nevertheless the OSS ouput plugin still works. I did /etc/init.d/alsa start (and also reload and force-reload, but no option makes alsaplayer/XMMS work) It doesn't work in kde nor Gnome apps. In KDE I can force it to use alsa as sound system in kcontrol, but only OSS works. In Gnome I don't even know where to start... Probably I still have oss running and that prevents alsa from doing it's job, but I don't know how to go on from here: how do I disable OSS, how enable alsa properly? What is the right way to install alsa on debian anyway? Thank you Pascal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
