Steve, Well, there is a lot about sound. The best thing is to start with HOWTOs: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO.html
Briefly, here is what you need to have/know to get it working: - linux kernel needs to have sound support compiled in. To my knowledge Debian stock kernels don't come with it. You need to build your own kernel with sound support and a proper driver. Read on ... - you need to find out what sound card your laptop has. Don't assume it's 'SB compatible', despite the fact you use 'SB' driver on Windows. On Linux you will usually get poor quality ( 8 bit ) sound. There are actually few cards not containing SB chipsets, which are compatible enough to use SB driver. Linux kernels sources come with a large selection of OSS/Free sound drivers. Check http://www.opensound.com/ossfree. If you don't find your card there, compile sound support into the kernel and use one of the ALSA modules ( available as Debian package ) - once you have a kernel with the right driver you may need to load them. One good way to do it is via modprobe: put your driver module along with sound support ( when compiled as a module ) int /etc/modules. Here is mine: sound # core sound support nm256 # Neomagic 256 ZX sound driver You may need to supply driver parametrs when loading - IOport, req#. In that case create a file called sound in etc/modutils and run update-modules as a root - this will append this information into /etc/modules.conf. Options are specific to a driver you use. Here is my /etc/modutils/sound: options nm256 buffertop=0x252800 I hope at least pointed in the right direction ... Jacek -- [ gpg fingerprint = B903 2B13 1D81 8194 143E E593 3D72 4BA4 6737 C434 ]
