[Wolves] Debian 3

[Matt Wright]

Nuts,

I spent hours getting alsa to work on my mates machine. Didn't know about
make-kpkg. Pfft.

Matt

-- Quantum canis ille in fenestra est?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aquarius" <aquarius-lists@kryogenix.org>
To: <wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Wolves] Debian 3


> Matt Wright spoo'd forth:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> 1/ How do I get KDE3?
> >>
> >> 2/ How do I get sound working? (VIA AC97 chip)
> >>
> >
> > Last time I used a mainboard with a VIA AC97 I ended up using ALSA
drivers
> > for it. If I'm not mistaken they might be in the new kernel feeds that
> > include ALSA drivers in the kernel. If not you'll have to install the
> > alsa-source packages and build your own.
>
> I don't think that they're in Debian kernel sources (in kernel-source-*
> packages), and they're certainly not in stable. If you're using a
> supplied kernel image (kernel-image-*) then just apt-get install the
> equivalent alsa-modules-* package. If you're building your own kernel
> then you'll need to install the alsa-source stuff as mentioned, and
> then build a kernel (you know about make-kpkg, right? if not, install
> kernel-package and read the docs, which live in
> /usr/share/doc/kernel-package) with ALSA. Be warned: it wasn't easy
> last time I did it, although that was a year ago. It *should* be easy,
> though, so I suspec thtey might have fixed it :)
>
> Regarding the other question, about where to get KDE3 for woody, the
> previously quoted KDE3 on Debian FAQ is the way for this, but for the
> generic "I want foo, it isn't in the official Debian archive, is it
> anywhere as debs?", look at http://www.apt-get.org/.
>
> Aq.
>
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