Sound Drivers

[rm whoami]

i,ve been trying to get sound on my machine for weeks. From following the instructions on the web i went to ALSA. I get to cp /downloads/alsa-* recive error missing destination file. Read the help and tried cp /downloads/alsa--sparse=always. Im very new to computers any help in getting my sound to work would be appreciated.

NB. If you are using cvs then you need to type

./cvscompile "or" make build

instead of

./configure

In a shell type these commands:

Make a directory to store the alsa source code in.

cd /usr/src
mkdir alsa
cd alsa
cp /downloads/alsa-* .

Now unzip and install the alsa-driver package

bunzip2 alsa-driver-xxx
tar -xf alsa-driver-xxx
cd alsa-driver-xxx
./configure --with-cards=emu10k1 --with-sequencer=yes;make;make install

NB. If you are using drivers before 0.9.4 then you need to run

./snddevices

If you use devfs then you should not run the snddevices script

The snddevices script sets the permissions for the devices it creates to root. You should

chmod a+rw /dev/dsp /dev/mixer /dev/sequencer /dev/midi

Now unzip and install the alsa-lib package

cd ..
bunzip2 alsa-lib-xxx
tar -xf alsa-lib-xxx
cd alsa-lib-xxx
./configure;make;make install

Now unzip and install the alsa-utils package

cd ..
bunzip2 alsa-utils-xxx
tar -xf alsa-utils-xxx
cd alsa-utils-xxx
./configure;make;make install

Now insert the modules into the kernel.

modprobe snd-emu10k1;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss

[dkeav]

umm, all of this is in the kernel now, you dont need to build the modules manually anymore just add them to your kernel if they are not already, you might want to install the alsa-utils package though for alsamixer and related tools

[mrrangerman43]

What distro are you using?

[rm whoami]

Debian Sarge, sorry about that

[crow2icedearth]

emu10k1 is supported in 2.6 kernel under ALSA . that is the driver i use for my sound blaster live card. it does work. my problem is my video card radeon with sound blaster live doesnt work. static sounds.

so anyways just compile it as a module and make sure you install alsa-ulits and run
alsaconf as root.

[ladoga]

Debian Sarge, sorry about that

If you have stock 2.6 debian kernel installed, then just
# apt-get install alsa alsa-oss alsa-utils

...and you're set.(you might still need to adjust volume and enable muted channels with alsamixer)