On (21/01/06 17:22), Koos van der Merwe wrote: > I recently aquired a new motherboard (Jetway ATi Radeon Xpress 200) > with onboard sound), new CPU (AMD64) and new graphics card (nVidia > geForce). I previously preferred Knoppix because of its good hardware > detection, but this time it let me down and I was without sound. Enter > Debian... I installed from the "network installation ISO" Debian > stable and everything works fine except for the sound. > > PROBLEM STATEMENT: > > On Windows I installed the ALC880 driver that came with the > motherboard and it works. Googled, found a linux driver at > www.opendrivers.com. Tried to install it: It seems it is > alsa-driver-1.0.4 . It won't compile... > make[3]: *** [/usr/src/alsa-driver-1.0.4/kbuild/../pci/via82xx.o] Error 1 > make[2]: *** [/usr/src/alsa-driver-1.0.4/kbuild/../pci] Error 2 > make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/src/alsa-driver-1.0.4/kbuild] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-386' > make: *** [compile] Error 2 > > Googled: apparently some ALC880 problems in alsa-driver-1.0.9 were > only fixed in alsa-driver-1.0.10 > (http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-9--v1-0-10.txt). Moreover, > there seems to be problems with the alsa-driver and kernels older than > 2.6.15. But apt (&Synaptic) can't find a kernel 2.6.15! I would like > not to break the current system, as I already installed most of the > programs I want (games excluded because of the lack of sound). And the > current kernel 2.6.8-2 is working just fine for everything else. I > would like to stay with sarge, because of the stability. I added > testing (and unstable) to sources.list and created > > QUESTIONS: > > 1. Is there any problems with the stability of the newer kernels? Why > is it not included in sarge? New kernels aren't added to the stable release; recent kernels have to be recompiled for sarge
> 2. Do I need to compile a new kernel or is it possible to just apt-get > install a new kernel version? Will doing this have any effect on the > rest of the system? (I.e. will I still have a Debian stable version at > the end of the day?) It may be daunting but compiling your own kernel is not that difficult, check out: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html > 3. I it possible to just add the new kernel and still keep the > "official" current kernel as an option in GRUB? How? (Links to > how-to's?) You may break your system; the latest kernel, I could get to work on sarge is 2.6.12 (from etch) > 4. Isn't there some kind of wrapper module that one can use to just > wrap around the Windows drivers provided by the hardware > manufacturers? Beyond my level of knowledge, I'm afraid but I guess it's doable Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]