On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 03:13:07PM +0000, David Bellows wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to get my SB Live to work with Debian 2.2 and ALSA. The ALSA > that ships with Debian 2.2 doesn't appear to have the driver I need for > the SB Live. So I have a few questions. > > 1. I directed apt to get stuff from the unstable branch which has an > ALSA that has my driver. Unfortunately there were so many dependencies > that kept popping up that I gave up -- at one point it just kept showing > the same screen over and over regardless of what I selected. Has > anybody succeeded in installing ALSA this way and how? Or has anyone > succeeded in installing the newest ALSA using just dpkg?
I did the dpkg way. Wasn't to much work.
I wasn't sure whether it's a good idea to point apt to the unstable, because
imho apt will try to update my hole system to woody.
But anyway I succeeded, by installing the necessary packages with dpkg.
-ff
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