Re: Sound and Linux Kernel 2.6

From: Andreas Janssen (andreas.janssen_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 02/28/04

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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 23:02:21 +0100

    Hello

    MacNean Tyrrell (<dardack@nycap.rr.com>) wrote:

    > Ok so I have Debian installed, and I like it a lot, but I can't get
    > the sound card to work, can't even get ALSA to work. So I decided to
    > just run Knoppix from the CD drive, and it successfully detects my
    > sound card, and it works there. I really don't want to use Knoppix,
    > just want to use Debian sarge. But without sound, kinda not useful
    > for some other things I want to do (ie MythTV). So I know that the
    > linux kernel 2.6 has ALSA already built in, found a website that
    > walked me through it but it didn't work. I reboot and LILO is really
    > screwed up. Anyone have some suggestions. Especially how to update
    > sarge to kernel 2.6. Thanks and would appreciate it.
    >
    > -DarDack
    >
    > btw I do have a supported sound card, esnoiqs 1370, snd-es1370 (or
    > ens1370 can't remember right now). In debian if I click on the sound
    > icon, it says can't find /dev/mixer/sound or /dev/sound/mixer no
    > device exists. Don't know if that helps. Thanks.

    Both the snd-Driver (alsa) and the other one should work. I won't go
    into details here, but you have to tell the system to load the driver.
    Add

    es1370

    to /etc/modules to load the OSS driver. Or add a line

    alias sound-slot-0 es1370

    to /etc/modprobe.d/aliases (Kernel 2.6) and /etc/modutils/aliases
    (Kernel 2.4). Run update-modules (2.6) and update-modules.modutils
    (2.4).

    And don't forget to add yourself to the audio group. Otherwise you will
    get "Permission denied" after loading the driver.

    best regards
            Andreas Janssen 

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