Hi, I am a brand-new Debian user but have used other dists for several years. I just installed potato and dist-upgraded to woody.
I'm trying to get sound to work on my laptop with ESS maestro-2. I've had it configured for me automatically by Redhat 6.2 and Redhat 7.0 before. When I run alsaconf and select ESS-Maestro2 I answer a bunch of questions (Max. dac frame size in kB, etc.) which I have no idea what the answers are so I select middles in the given ranges. First, is my problem related to these answers & if so any ideas where to find them? On finishing I get: Loading driver: Starting sound driver: es1968. Setting the PCM volume to 100% and the Master output volume to 50% The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system. Could not initialize the mixer, the card was probably not detected correctly. Do I not have the ALSA sound driver? lsmod reveals a bunch of sound-related modules -- looks okay. When I try to play a sound I get nothing -- wavp appears to play wav files, but no sound comes out (volume is up). Running amixer I get: The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system. I read a similar question on this list and the response was the alsa was beta software and to try OSS. I can't find deb's for that with dselect. Wouldn't OSS also be kernel sound modules, i.e. under /lib/modules/2.2.17/sound? Are there deb's for these modules (which are different from the alsa modules I have under there now) or will I need to compile the kernel myself to go that route? Any help will be greatly appreciated! Gavin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
