sarge: getting als to work

[Sean McMahon]

Won't he also need alsa-utils?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny at hittsjunk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: sarge: getting als to work


> 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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