I am working on getting sound working on my computer. I have never had sound working before, so lots of things might be wrong, most probably, I don't know what I'm doing, but other things, too.
So far I have determined that my sound card uses CM8738 chip and the driver for it is cmpci.o which is beging loaded. But... During boot, a message flashes by that says that snd.o can't be found, and hence is not loaded. snd.o seems to be part of alsa, according to a search of the data base at debian.org. In that database however, the only hits are for alsa packages that are supposed to work with kernel 2.4.xx and I am running kernel 2.2.20 vanilla. I look in my /lib/modules and in dselect and see that some alsa stuff is installed. I try to configure it, and get puzzling results. In particular, my sound chip is not mentioned as a choise in the pick list for chips/cards. CM8330 is there, which is a different chip at the C-Media web site. I look in dselect to see what alsa components might usefully be installed. I find no packages that mention 2.2.xx explicitly, but many that mention 2.4.xx, and many different flavors of 2.4.xx, too. So I wonder where did the alsa stuff that is on my machine come from? Can it be made to work with my present kernel? Must I/ Should I migrate to kernel 2.4.xx? I have seen statements that one doesn't need alsa for simple beginner grade sound, but the driver for my card seems only to be available with alsa, but it seems not to be supported by the alsa that I have. Please give advice. My goal is to get sound hardware/software installed and working so that software, such as web browsers, that provide sound will be audible. TIA -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
