[Preston] Debian 3.0

[Guy]

Matthew,
I have a SB live value that also uses the emu10k1 module. I have it working 
with Debian although I cannot quite remember how I did this when I first 
installed Debian. (I will look into this.) I have since recompiled the kernel 
to 'build in' the emu10k1 module.
I am pretty sure that nowadays (with PCI bus soundcards) it is as 
straightforward as making sure the module is loaded. Try it with 'modprobe 
emu10k1'.

The ALSA thing is a completely different issue. This is nothing to do with 
the emu10k1 module. I think it is a project to unifiy the Linux sound 
architecture. It is true that it is better to compile the ALSA modules 
separately when you compile your kernel, but Debian provides both ready 
compiled kernels and ALSA modules. To be honest I have never had much to do 
with ALSA because I found that the standard emu10k1 module did everything I 
required from it. I was going to include the ALSA modules last time I 
compiled the kernel to experiment with them but I forgot.

In short, you don't need ALSA to get your SB soundcard to work with Debian. 
(But, you will need to add your normal user to the 'audio' group to use 
sound.)
adduser your_username audio

Regards,
-- 
Guy


On Monday 18 November 2002 8:17 pm, you wrote:

> I have an SB Live Player 5.1 which uses the emu10k1 driver.  Will sndconfig
> install that for me when I move to Debian?  I heard that you had to compile
> ALSA and your driver yourself on Debian (that's one of the things that was
> putting me off :D)?
>
> thanks!
>
>
> matthew
>
>