debian lenny and sound card

[Keith Barrett]

Hi Jack,

Thanks for the info.

I got some noise from the speakers now so going in the right direction. 
  Had to apt-get install alsa-base and it all came to life.

Now, any suggestions for a player?  Need to play mp3 but playing other 
formats would be good.  Needs to work with speakup.

Thanks



Zachary Kline wrote:
> 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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