I was trying to avoid recompiling because at the moment my only Linux box is
this 120 mega byte disk machine so I don't want to install any more than
absolutely necessary. I'm not sure I have room for the sources and gcc. I
finally found a how-to for alsa. A cursory glance at it suggests that
setting alsa up is a little more complex than just running dselect, I'll
read the rest and see if it helps.
Last minute news: I have finally managed to connect to
http://www.alsa-project.org/, perhaps that will solve all my problems.
Thanks,
Kevin Whitefoot
From: Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Kevin Whitefoot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I used dselect to install alsu-utils and eveything else named alsa
except
> the source. Ran also-config (or some similar name) and it created a
startup
> script. I ran the script and tried to run aplayer and the other utils
but
> all of them say that they cannot open the sound device. The relevant
device
> files all exist (audio, dsp).
Did you compile basic sound support as a module in the kernel?
Then, if you don't have installed the same kernel-image as
appriopriate for alsa-modules-2.2.XX, you should compile your own
alsa-modules from the sources-deb. (cd /usr/src ; tar -xvzf
alsa-sources-xxx ; cd linux ; make deb ; make-kpkg modules_image).
Greetings,
joachim
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