[Lancaster] Re: debian sound etc.

[Ken Hough]

Andy & Richard,

Thanks for helpful comments re sound via Debian.

Two points from Andy's message:

ac97 -- No, the mobo in question does not have on board sound. The 
Soundblaster 5.1 is the only sound card.

I clearly need the 2nd CD. Perhaps one of you guys would be good enough 
to burn me a copy for collection at the next Folly meet or perhaps for 
delivery via snail mail.

Thanks again

Ken Hough


andy baxter wrote:
>>Andy, 
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>>After two successive hard days out on the fells, I feel shattered today  
>>and so decided to try out your suggestions re sound under Debian. 
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>>The good news is that I've got a Soundblaster 5.1 card running , but it  
>>wasn't easy. I know the sound card config is ok, because after adding my  
>>user account to group 'audio', I get intro music on starting KDE. 
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>>I managed to load 'aptitude'. 'synaptic' is not on the CD. I looked for  
>>'alsa-base', etc, but there's no 'asla' stuff. Instead I found  
>>'sndconfig' (uses OSS) which managed to set up the sound card and play  
>>Linus' Thorvalds melodious tones. 'lsmod' showed modules 'emu10k1',  
>>'sound', 'soundcore' and 'ac97_codec' were loaded. 
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> the alsa stuff is all on CD2. not sure about synaptic (I only have isos for disks 1 & 2). 
> ac97 usually means onboard sound - do you have that as well? 
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>>I couldn't discover any way to use 'aptitude' to scan the contents of  
>>the CD archive for specific items (as I can with YAST -- even using wild  
>>cards) so it was a pain to search manually. I must be missing something  
>>here. 
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> You can either do /name to search for anything which has 'name' in the package name. Or /~d 
> search1 ~dsearch2 to search for packages which have 'search1' and 'search2' in any of their 
> description fields. (name, title, description). '\' repeats the previous search. Home goes 
> back to the top of the list. Enter to expand one of the package groups (net, mail, base 
> etc), or to show the full details for a package. +/- to mark/unmark for install. 'g' twice 
> to do the install (first time just shows you what will be done.). 'q' to go back to the 
> previous page or quit the app. 
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>>Anyway, I could not find the likes of 'kmix' or 'kscd' or any command  
>>line equivalents and so could not use the sound card. I tried via  
>>'gnome', but  neither the mixer nor the CD player applets worked. 
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> These are also on CD2. 
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>>I will have another look soon, after the headache subsides. 'aptitude'  
>>is a help in getting into Debian, but at first, not easy to use. 
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>>Thanks for your help. 
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> OK. 
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> andy.