[sclug] Sound config

[pieter claassen]

Initially I went for the

lspci -v to see what the machine thinks it has in it and then
modprobe <driver>

which kinda worked (for some reason my PCM channel was only working in
binary on/off mode)

I then went to alsa which was a whole lot more trouble and eventually
managed to get everything working, but with effort. There were also
issues with sound server (esd) integration and the thing needed constant
attention.

However, after a discussion with the guy in the office next door (Raz),
I went back to the old drivers and they started working fine (might be a
kernel upgrade).

The problem I believe is that alsa is documented from a "steps to get it
working" and not much in the line of "what is it actually doing when it
loads all these modules".

Pieter


On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 09:19, Simon Huggins wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:07:56AM +0100, Leon Ward wrote:
> > Can someone point me to a good place to read some current and accurate
> > information?
> > In my old RH system sndconfig sorted it all out for me, i can only assume
> > that nothing like that exists on debian :(
> 
> Well if it's a PCI card or an on board chip try modprobe <driver>
> 
> For instance the bf2.4 config is at:
> ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/bf2.4/kernel-config
> Likewise other kernel config files exist at the relevant location.
> 
> So you can see if your driver is compiled or not.
> 
> If it's isa then welcome to the wonderful world of having to know
> IRQ/DMA/port etc.  Or possibly using isapnp.
> 
> Debian does ship sndconfig IIRC but it's a bit of a hit and miss affair
> and it never worked for me on my (admittedly slightly esoteric) Ensoniq
> Soundscape PnP.
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