On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 04:02:46PM +0700, Ken Heard wrote: > I have always known that sound was available on Linux. When I first > used Linux RH8 with KDE in a P4 box, I did not have sound on > installation in July 2003. At the time it was all I could do to get > working what I really needed; sound was not a priority. I did not > really miss it because I still had a laptop with Win98 which I could and > did use on the rare occasions when I would want sound. > > Early in 2006 when Sarge was released I installed it with KDE on that P4 > box, but sound was still not operational. I still had that laptop to > use for those rare sound occasions. > > In January 2007 I installed Etch with KDE on that laptop, but still have > no sound. Now however I have no Win98 to fall back on. As I will be > away from home for the entire month of March I would like sound but > still do not have it. > > I have in the past three days tried to do two things which require > sound: play an audio CD and listen to a telecast. It the former case I > tried to use KDE's noatun and in the latter Icedove with Kaffeine > installed. In both cases, the only result I got when I hit the play or > start button was the KDE crash handler showing information I did not > understand. > > Other than the foregoing I don't know what else to say. I am truly in a > position where that is the best I can do to describe my results when I > try to use sound. Put another way, I do not know what questions to ask. > > The only thing I can think of is that I am missing one or more packages, > but which? I do not even know what packages are necessary for sound. I > would appreciate if one or more of the experts out there could give me > some clues as to what I should be looking for. the alsa packages are needed. IIRC alsa-base,alsa-tools,alsa-utils. the run as root: alsaconf and it should do the rest.
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