On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 18:25:49 +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: >On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 06:56:58AM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > >> I have an sb-live sound card and I am having trouble getting sound to >> work. > >Which kernel-version do you use? In newer versions there is a emu10k1 >module in the sound section so you don't need alsa at all. >Before the kernel-module I used alsa too but I compiled it from source >and followed the instructions from the alsa-mini-howto and never had >any problems. >Phil
I was running 2.4.1 with the module from the kernel - and then I couldn't get sound to work because all the documentation I could find (including in the kernel) couldn't tell me how to get the module loaded. In the end, I did a kernel recompile and started it and it seemed to destroy the root partition filesystem, so ... I reloaded debian from scratch using the potato (stable) cd 1 to get me to the point where you can edit apt/sources.list and then chose "advanced" selection of packages to put me into dselect. I have a potato mirror on another machine with "selected" debs from unstable (mainly xfree 4, kde 2.1beta and then the libraries etc that that decision drags you into loading - also the alsa modules 0.5 - because they have the sb-live drivers in them), so it set sources.list to point to potato and (in another line entry) an "extra" directory tree where I have stored the extra stuff (used dpkg-scanpackages to create a Packages.gz file) So ... I am now running 2.2.18pre21, and the alsa .debs are all the versions that use those kernel headers. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandler.u-net.com