[linux-audio-user] demudi-base config (Newbie)

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
tim hall hat gesagt: // tim hall wrote:

> I'm almost as new to Debian and Linux as I am to DeMuDi, so I've kind of 
> dropped myself in at the deep end I guess.

You should read some general Debian documents. I only have links to
german pages right now, but debian.org should give some pointers. 

> Also my system can't find any opti92x module does this mean I have to go 
> find/download one? I've been running the bluepoint/OPTi soundcard with mad16 
> semi-succesfully up to this point. modprobe won't load seq-oss either which 
> makes me suspect I have conflicts with my modules (?) :-/

If you want do to anything remotely serious with audio you need to
install the ALSA drivers for your soundcards and libasound2.

> mad16                   7392   0  (unused)
> ad1848                 20896   0  [mad16]
> isa-pnp                28168   0  [serial smc-ultra ad1848]
> sb_lib                 32480   0  [mad16]
> uart401                 6080   0  [mad16 sb_lib]
> sound                  52620   0  [opl3 mad16 ad1848 sb_lib uart401]

These are the OSS/Free kernel drivers. You need to get rid of them ;)
by installing alsa-modules-2.4.18 and configuring the modules.
www.alsa-project-org/alsa-doc has detailed instructions for this. On
Debian, modules configuration takes place under /etc/modutils. With
modconf you can install or deinstall the kernel-modules. ALSA has
alsaconf to help with configuring the alsa-modules, but last time I
looked, this was broken. You might be better of by creating a file
/etc/modutils/alsa as described on alsa-project.org and run
update-modules as root by hand. 

ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__