hi ya jim On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Jim Lynch wrote:
> I've been completely unable to get sound to work with Debian and any > sound card, ever and I've been running Debian for years. My last > attempt was the testing distro and 2.6.8 on a box with the via 82xxx > card build into the MB. I fiinally got it to actually install so the > /dev/dsp device was recognized and the alsa mixer must think there is > something there because it lets me adjust the gain, but no noise from > anything. Dumping wave files to /dev/dsp or /dev/audio doesn't even > work. you cannot just "dump" sound files to random devices *.midi being the hardest to get working - /dev/sequencer issues which implies other kernel config files and modules for the midi players need to be properly set kmid, kmidi, timidity, playmidi, ... *.wav is easy .. install sox play *.wav *.au being the easiest to make noise cat *.au > /dev/audio ---- which sound modules is installed?? - oss or alsa ... ( gets confusing ya know ) - the kernel need to be configured for the proper sound modules - i always use my own kernel to eliminate kernel problems > I've also installed SUSE 9.1 which is running a 2.6.x kernel and > it works fine. Sounds good. I compared the modules and as far as I can > tell they are the same. good to know the hardware works .. > Just as an aside, I installed CUPS and I can't print. It says there cups is for the birds... manually edit /etc/printcap ... and start lprng ... you might need to enter 192.168.1.0 into the list of local ip in its permission files you will definitely need a printer filter ( apsfilter or magicfilter or foomatic... ) c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]