I had the same problem. What you need is the driver for your sound card. For the SoundBlaster Live card, it is emu10K.Sound support seems to be one of the less well documented areas for Linux in general and Debian in particular (go ahead, flame away and point me to the how-to's I missed!).
I know I SHOULD be able to get a happy configuration with my Sound Blaster Live - but I'm not getting very far. The frustrating part is the lack of consistency - sometimes I can get things to work, and sometimes not.
I'm trying to get comfortable with Debian - to actually get a feel for how it works (without messing with code or re-compiling the kernel!) and how to support it. So I just keep re-installing to see which steps mess me up less than others.
Can someone point me to a resource to understand the sound support available in Debian? Stuff that will explain to me the differences between OSS, ESD, ALSA, etc.? And then of course adding a desktop environment like KDE or GNOME adds another layer.
BTW, I'm using Woody - I think. I started messing with my sources.list,
just for fun, and I may have partially upgraded to Sarge or Sid.
Unfortunately, I had all kinds of trouble getting this driver to compile and load. I could only find it as source, not a .deb file.
Fortunately, when I upgraded from kernel 2.2.x to 2.4.20 (that is from 'testing'; I think 2.4.19 is in 'stable') it included the emu10K driver as a module, so it just worked.
To change kernels, run dselect (or your favorite apt frontend) and pick a newer kernel. It will update your lilo configuration. Reboot, and it should 'just work'.
- Bobman
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