John, Take a look at debian university. It will point you in the right direction.
http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt cheers, dar On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, John Foster wrote: > I have been using OSS commercial grade for several years on our Debian > systems. This requires a licensing fee to the end user. I would like to > be able to get sound working on our systems using free software, to > avoid that expense. If I am able to get it working on our server I think > I will develop the skills to manage it on our retail systems. > > My basic software system is Debian-2.2r2 GNU/Linux Potato with a few > tweaks from outside sources. I run Kernel-2.4.0_final compiled for SMP. > WE tend to use sound boards with Yamaha chips (OPL3-SA2) because of cost > purposes. I am using GDM as my display manager, Enlightenment as the > window manager, and Gnome as the desktop manager. I selected Alsa rather > than esound as my sound software after reading all of the docs. The > reason is that alsa allows use of a greater range of software due to > dependencies. I put the kernel .config file & the output from dmesg > below for any questions regarding specefically how the kernel and > modules work. I used alsaconf and If I enter from root#: > /etc/init.d/alsa start I get the message;Starting sound driver: > snd-card-opl3sa2 failed. > >From this point I am lost. > Any help or advise is appreciated..Please excuse the use of bandwidth. > > > My kernel config file is below: > --------------------------------------------------------------- [snip] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >
