27 Oct
2002
27 Oct
'02
11:26 a.m.
Hi,
Laura Conrad hat gesagt: // Laura Conrad wrote:
I just fixed my Mandrake RPM problems by installing
Debian (woody).
A cool solution.
Right now, I don't have any sound apps working.
What's the best way to go about it? I have an SB-Live soundcard, and
need to be able to play MIDI files, and record sound. (Usually via
timidity and ecasound, although I've used other apps as well.)
Is compiling Alsa CVS the right thing to do, or is there something
easy to do with apt-get that would get me going until I had something
I really needed the Alsa CVS for?
I wouldn't (and haven't done so) install ALSA CVS. There are some
changes that might mean, that you couldn't install any official Debian
sound software packages. I like staying with the Debian packages of
ALSA. They are fine, and if something is wrong, you can file Debian
bug reports :) Unless you really *need* ALSA CVS, I'd stay with the
distribution's packages.
Debian already has many sound packages. Get familiar with "apt-cache"
and you will find a lot of packages, try for example
$ apt-cache search recorder
$ apt-cache search midi
If you want the latest and greatest, you will probalby need to run the
Debian "testing" or even "unstable" branch, like I do. You can also
find some nice source packages at agnula.org
ciao
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