Re: How to install sound on Debian Linux
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:27:04PM +0200, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote: | I have an MAD-16 soundcard and thought I installed all the required stuff, I am not familiar with this one. | but program's don't recognize the card. How to install correctly? You need to edit a file in /etc/modutils (I think /etc/modutils/local_config is a good name) and include some lines like alias sound sb options sb io=0x500 irq=5 dma=1 and then run 'update-modules' as root. I don't have my box in front of me, but the options I have in my config are for my old system which had an ESS1869 card. From RTFM-ing I learned that it uses the 'sb' module and by checking windows I found the right options for io base, irq, and dma channel (the ones above are just random numbers). If you choose the wrong option for, eg, dma you will get sound but it will be very very crappy. So basically, RTFM to find out which module you need for that sound card and then figure out which options you need to specify for it. Either check windows (if you have it dual-booting) or maybe others can suggest ways of determining that info directly from linux. HTH, -D
Re: How to install sound on Debian Linux
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:44:06AM -0400, D-Man wrote: You need to edit a file in /etc/modutils (I think /etc/modutils/local_config is a good name) and include some lines like The file is /etc/modules.conf Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com
Re: How to install sound on Debian Linux
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:53:36AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: | On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:44:06AM -0400, D-Man wrote: | | You need to edit a file in /etc/modutils (I think | /etc/modutils/local_config is a good name) and include some lines like | | The file is /etc/modules.conf Not on Debian. What happens is every time you run update-modules the /etc/modules.conf file gets overwritten. Any changes you make are lost. The way update-modules works is it concatenates all the files found under /etc/modutils together and writes them to /etc/modules.conf (with some comments, etc). Pick any file you want (even create your own) under /etc/modutils and then run update-modules and it will work fine. You are right, however, that if you don't run update-modules you won't see any change (updates). Also, if you (and every package, etc, on your system) never runs update-modules then you can edit /etc/modules.conf directly. -D
Re: How to install sound on Debian Linux
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Sam Varghese wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:44:06AM -0400, D-Man wrote: You need to edit a file in /etc/modutils (I think /etc/modutils/local_config is a good name) and include some lines like The file is /etc/modules.conf On a Debian system you should _not_ alter /etc/modules.conf but do it as D-Man has suggested. To quote the warining at the top of the modules.conf file: ### This file is automatically generated by update-modules # # Please do not edit this file directly. If you want to change or add # anything please take a look at the files in /etc/modutils and read # the manpage for update-modules. Martin
Re: How to install sound on Debian Linux
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:59:38AM -0400, D-Man wrote: | On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:44:06AM -0400, D-Man wrote: | | You need to edit a file in /etc/modutils (I think | /etc/modutils/local_config is a good name) and include some lines like Sam Varghese wrote: | The file is /etc/modules.conf D-Man wrote: Not on Debian. What happens is every time you run update-modules snip you're right. some slackware habits die hard :-) Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com
Re: How to install sound on Debian Linux
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:27:04PM +0200, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote: 1 I have an MAD-16 soundcard and thought I installed all the required stuff, 2 but program's don't recognize the card. How to install correctly? You must read the Sound-HOWTO at http://lonuxdoc.org/ 1 ** 2 De informatie verzonden met dit e-mailbericht (en bijlagen) 3 is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n) en zij die 4 van de geadresseerde(n) toestemming kregen dit bericht te 5 lezen. Gebruik door anderen dan geadresseerde(n) is 6 verboden. De informatie in dit e-mailbericht (en bijlagen) 7 kan vertrouwelijk van aard zijn en kan binnen het bereik 8 vallen van een geheimhoudingsplicht en een verschonings- 9 recht. 10 11 Any information transmitted by means of this email (and any 12 of its attachments) is intended exclusively for the addressee 13 or addressees and for those authorized by the addressee 14 or addressees to read this message. Any use by a party 15 other than the addressee or addressees is prohibited. 16 The information contained in this email (or any of its 17 attachments) may be confidential in nature and fall under a 18 pledge of secrecy and the attorney-client privilege. 19 ** Guus, that is an almost perfect 10-90 signal to noise ratio. Please tune your mail software to give off more signal and less noise. Cheers, Joost
Re: How to install sound on Debian Linux
Hello, On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Ellenkamp, Guus wrote: I have an MAD-16 soundcard and thought I installed all the required stuff, but program's don't recognize the card. How to install correctly? ISA card, right? The best way to configure these cards is with sndconfig. There is a .deb floating around somewhere, search the web for it. Did many miracles for me. Greetz, Sebastiaan
