On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:20:45PM +0200, Louis Woods wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:50:59PM +0300, klkl lklk wrote: > > > > > >>Hi all, > >>i've recently moved from my beloved woody to sarge:Sarge IS GGGGGREAT! > >>When i was using woody,my sound driver was called ens-1371 ( > >>Well, i was quite happy that ssarge had autodetected and loaded the > >>correct > >>alsa driver with kernel 2.6 > >>(On bootup it says: > >>Loaded ens-1371 successfully) > >>Here comes my issue: > >>In GNOME,KDE,X AND console there's no error about sound, just no sound. > >>I changed all the file permissions in /dev/snd to be readable and writable > >>to anyone. But there's no sound! Ex. When I use the > >>GNOME volume adjuster, it resets to 0 alone after i've pulled it up! > >>Please Help! > >>Thank you in advance! > >> > >> > > > > > >I found a few things that helped get sound working. > > > >(1) run alsa-config, assuming you're using also, of course. > > Sometime I had to rerun it every time I rebooted. > >(2) If you are running alsa, make sure you do *not* have any OSS drivers > > around. They can be blacklisted, or not installed, or whatever. > > Alsa's OSS emulator is OK, though. > >(3) When I upgraded to etch, the problems came back until I installed > > udev, discover, and hotplug. These jountly seemed to recognise all > > my hardware correctly and set up /dev. You probably don't need > > hotplug for sound, though (it recognised USB things). I mention > > it because I installed it at the same time, and you never know -- > > there might have been some arcane interaction. > > > >-- hendrik > > > > > > > > > I just got sound working on my desktop. I first installed the following > packages: > > 1) alsa-base > 2) alsa-oss > 3) alsa-utils > > I didn't install any alsa-modules as I am running 2.6.12 kernel. > > After I installed these packages i ran the command "alsaconf"; I first > thought the command is "alsa-config", however, that didn't work, > "alsaconf" did. > > Now my only problem is that (same as above) I have to rerun alsaconf > everytime I reboot. Any solutions to how this can be fixed would be grand. > > Above it was mentioned to install "discover". When attempting to do so > apt wants to remove "discover1". What is the difference between > "discover" and "discover1"?
I think discover is newer. At least, it depends on discover2 (please check this; my memory may be faulty), which is newer. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
