sarge: getting als to work

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

The easiest way will be to upgrade to a 2.6 kernel.  This way you won't
need to duild the alsa modules from source.

The 2.4.27 kernel on the installer has an old version of speakup, and
was only intencded for installing.

I am running a 2.6 kernel with alsa built as modules.  All I have to do
to get alsa working is

apt-get install alsa-base

You will need to install additional packages to build software that uses
alsa, but that should get sound up and running.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny
	  
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:31:09PM -0400, Christopher Moore wrote:
> Hello,
> I've recently installed debian sarge and want to get sound working.  Which
> debian packages to I need to install?  I am running the 2.4.27
> speakup-enabled kernel which came with the talking debian install cd.  
> 
> I could go back to my old ways and follow the alsa-howto in the goodies the
> goodies directory.  But I'm trying to learn the "debian" approach to doing
> things.  
> 
> tia
> Chris
> 
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