Hi I'm forwarding this message again because it didn't seem to get to the list; I will add a couple of questions.
I recently installed Potato and now would like to set up sound. I have already read on the mailing list some stuff about installing sound support but would like to check a few things with you. Some people say to install from unstable the debs for ALSA and then run alsaconf. A couple of questions - I could change my sources to point at unstable but I don't want to upgrade to woody so how do I get just the debs for ALSA without upgrading? Some Howtos I've read say that I should make sure sound is compiled into the kernel. How do I tell if sound is compiled in? Does the potato kernel come with sound already compiled in? So, do I only have to install the ALSA debs and run alsaconf and that's it or do I have to do more to get sound working? I found on the linuxnewbie site some useful information about installing the emu10k1 driver from opensource.creative.com (www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/soundcards/sblive.html). This is a second way that is documented (as far as I can tell) in a better way (ie. a specific do this, then that, etc) at a level I can understand so I'm tempted to follow it. However, what is the Debian way? The debs or creative's way? (Don't tell me it's whatever works :-) Thanks Jonathan