debian lenny and sound card

[Zachary Kline]

Hi Keith,
    I'm running Lenny under Qemu virtualization.
    It does not use Jack for sound, so far as I'm aware.  It just uses basic 
Alsa.
    Since I'm running Qemu with emulated generic hardware, it was enough for 
me to let Udev and the kernel autodetect my card.  I didn't have to run 
alsaconf or any other such utility, just alsamixer and/or amixer to change 
sound volumes and such.
    I can't speak to your specific situation.  For the record, I didn't back 
out of the installer but just told it to only install the base system 
without any GUI.  That includes kernel modules.  I can't specifically 
remember whether Alsa was installed along with it or not.  I may have 
aptituded it.  After doing so, it just worked.
    I hope this long-winded explaination is somehow helpful.
Best,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Barrett" <lists at barrettpianos.co.uk>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 2:01 PM
Subject: debian lenny and sound card


>I am about to start trying to get sound working on my debian lenny box.
>
> Wondering about the best way to achieve this.  I am working from the
> command line so after installing the base system, I backed out of the
> install and just used apt-get to get the packages I wanted.
>
> I have been googling but have found a howto using alsa but I note from
> one of the lists, possibly this one that lenny is using jack for sound.
> Is this for the command line?
>
> The howto was for an older version of debian.
>
> I would consider installing gnome and orca if this would make things
> less complicated but I think I was really only want the gui for browsing
> the net and I am not sure that orca is solid enough yet.
>
> So, should I use this alsa howto or is there a better way?
>
> Thanks and sorry for the list clutter but not many howto's out there for
> lenny yet.
>
> Keith
>
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