[linux-audio-user] sound on debian 2.4.26

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Laura Conrad hat gesagt: // Laura Conrad wrote:

> >>>>> "Laura" == Laura Conrad <lconrad at laymusic.org> writes:
> 
>     Laura> I upgraded my kernel from 2.4.18 to 2.4.26, and now I can't
>     Laura> play sounds.  Any time I try, the program just hangs until
>     Laura> I ^C out of it.  No messages appear in /var/log/messages,
>     Laura> or on the console.
> 
> Progress, but still no sound.
> 
> I removed the module for the motherboard soundcard (via82cxxx_audio),
> and re-probed the emu10k1 module, and using sound no longer hangs;
> timidity sits there for about as long as it should to play the MIDI
> file, but I still don't hear any sound.  The mixer has the volume set
> at 100% and my speaker is turned up to maximum.  (So it will be pretty
> loud when I finally get it working.)

You're running the OSS drivers. You don't want to do this. Some ways
out include: 

1)  You follow Tim's advice to install the AGNUlA kernel.

2)  You install kernel 2.6 which includes ALSA. (It's what I do, although
I always compile my own kernel.)

3) you build your own kernel as well.

4) You stay with Debian's packages and install the package "alsa-modules"
which matches your installed kernel package. apt-get will take care
that the right one gets installed.

I would recommend to do 4) first, its the easiest way. 
"apt-cache search alsa-modules " shows the available packages, "dpkg -l
kernel-image\* " will show what kernel package you are running.

You can probably reuse your old alsa configuration with the new
kernel.

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__