Still need advice ALSA/Intel onboard s5520sc

[Roopakshi Pathania]

Hi Liz,

Have you tried Debian images from Samuel's page?
http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/espeakup/

Regards

--- On Mon, 3/14/11, Liz Hare <doggene at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Liz Hare <doggene at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Still need advice ALSA/Intel onboard s5520sc
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Date: Monday, March 14, 2011, 8:59 PM
> Hi, all,
> 
> I'm still trying to figure out how to get Linux installed
> on this machine with the crazy Intel 7.1 HD audio.
> 
> I tried the Arch distribution
> 
> TalkingArch-2010.05-netinstall_x86_64.iso
> 
> and got a boot error in spite of trying to burn the CD
> slowly, and trying it several times.
> 
> Since I really wanted Debian
> 
> (espeakup-squeeze-amd64.iso),
> 
>  I tried borrowing eyeballs to just install Debian 6.0.0,
> but after a few  menu selections I got an error that
> the speech synthesizer couldn't be configured.
> 
> Any suggestions on the best way to get this thing running
> so I can actually get some work done on it? Is there any
> distribution with the most recent ALSA drivers (1.0.24) and
> speech? If not, would I be better off getting an external
> USB sound card-- are those supported with espeakup?
> 
> Thanks for any ideas,
> Liz
> 
> 
> Liz Hare PhD
> Dog Genetics LLC
> doggene at earthlink.net
> http://www.doggenetics.com
> 
> On 3/10/2011 4:29 PM, Christopher Brannon wrote:
> > Liz Hare<doggene at earthlink.net> 
> writes:
> > 
> >> Which version of ALSA did that distribution have?
> It's 1.0.21 in the
> >> version of Debian I'm trying to install.
> > 
> > Hi Liz,
> > The versions on my CD are as follows:
> > alsa-utils 1.0.23,
> > kernel 2.6.33.
> > These are old by ArchLinux standards.  It's time
> to make a new CD.  The
> > current versions in our repositories are:
> > alsa-utils-1.0.24.2 and kernel 2.6.37.
> > 
> > -- Chris
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