Re: [linux-audio-user] new Debian user

Frank> Hi, Frank> Laura Conrad hat gesagt: // Laura Conrad wrote: Frank> A cool solution. I hope so. Apt-get is working as well as it's supposed to, but I'm still having to run it a lot. And there are still a bunch of things that don't work yet. Frank> I wouldn't (and haven't done so) install ALSA CVS. There Frank> are some changes that might mean, that you couldn't install Frank> any official Debian sound software packages. I like staying Frank> with the Debian packages of ALSA. OK, I'm trying to do that. I started out installing the obvious, and timidity now thinks it's playing something but no sound comes out. When I try to run amixer, it says "No ALSA driver installed". When I run " /etc/init.d/alsa start", it says: debian:/etc/init.d# ./alsa start No ALSA driver installed Starting ALSA sound driver (version none):modprobe: Can't locate module snd failed. So I tried installing some of the driver packages. The ones that are build are for kernel 2.16, and i have 2.18, so I got the source, and am trying to compile them, but I can't figure out how to tell configure where the kernel source is. I've installed both kernel-source and kernel-headers for 2.18, and apt-get just dumps tarballs in /usr/src. When I unpack the tarballs there, configure is happy if i give it --with-kernel=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18/, but then make exits with: make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/pci' /sbin/depmod -a -F /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18//System.map 2.4.18 depmod: Can't read /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18//System.map But if I run configure --with-kernel=/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18, it complains that it can't findn version.h. So is this what I'm supposed to do, and if so, how? Frank> They are fine, and if something is wrong, you can file Frank> Debian bug reports :) I doubt that this particular problem is a bug, just a confusing setup, and a user who doesn't know how to find the fine manual, if there is one. Frank> If you want the latest and greatest, you will probalby need Frank> to run the Debian "testing" or even "unstable" branch, like Frank> I do. You can also find some nice source packages at Frank> agnula.org I'm trying to avoid that at the moment, because once when I upgraded to testing on a junk system I stopped being able to get into X. And I'm having enough problems getting things to work without a broken upgrade on my hands. -- Laura (mailto:lconrad@laymusic.org , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139