On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:05:09AM +0000, David Turner wrote: > Hi debian gurus, > > My first post to the list, so go easy on me. I am still a debian newbie. (and > apologies if this message appears twice, I posted in yesterday, but I havent > seen it arrive.) > > I have installed debian, and I am struggling to get my sound card working. > lspci tells me I have a... > > 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 > AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) >
You want the alsa packages for that. You can either install the alsa-modules for your kernel (on unstable I only saw them for 2.4 kernels), or download alsa-source and compile for you kernel (make-kpkg --added-modules alsa-driver modules-image to build the package). > So I have been struggling with kernel rebuilds to get this sound module > loaded okay. > > I have just run a cd-image of knoppix and it detected/ installed the > modules beautifully. (knoppix looks cool to me) and I had sound playing > straight away. > First run as root ln -s /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 /etc/modutils/alsa Get the alsaconf package and run alsaconf. It should detect your card and make a configuration file (you may have to do touch /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 if you get an error that it doesn't exist). You may have to do an update-modules afterword but I thing alsaconf does that for you. This should get things working. > My question is: How do I copy the Knoppix configuration across to the > debian install? Is it possible to extract the .config from knoppix and The .config should be in /boot/config-<kernel version> of you really want it. > rebuild my kernel using that? > Don't know where it keeps its configuration. I believe that it uses alsa and /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 but maybe it uses /etc/modutils/alsa or something like that directly. Can't help you much there, sorry. > cheers, > > > > > david. > > ps. debian kernel: 2.6.0 & knoppix kernel: 2.4.22 (I think) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
