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pliz tell me what sould i do to have sound in Debian Sid.

I installed Alsa but it doesn't seem to work.

i have AC'97 codec on board.What should i do?

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howdy kobedf

 

Sound setup can generally be tricky at times. First off: are you using the ALSA-drivers that are included in the kernel, or did you d/l the sources from the ALSA-site, or did you do some APT/DSELECT-thing?

 

If you have installed ALSA via "dselect" or "apt-get" I can't tell you much as I don't use those tools too much as they never gave me a single software-piece without a thorough headache, but that's a different story.

 

In case it's the kernel-version, make sure you have "Alsa"-support checked and also check if you have included support for the respective sound-chip of your mobo. More info about the HW would be necessary at this point to tell you something more specific (mobo-vendor/type, soundchip). It's also possible that the support for ALSA is already there and the module just doesn't get loaded.

 

I did all my ALSA installs by compiling the sources from the ALSA-site. For this you need to make sure that you only have soundcard-support enabled in the kernel-config. The ALSA-driver then does the rest.

 

The "./configure"-run can take heaps of parameters, so I recommend to do something like

 

"./configure --help > alsa_options.txt"

 

first. This creates the above textfile with infos about what you exactly can pass to "confgure" as parameters. Take a thorough look at those and pick the options you need to pass to "configure". This should look something like ...

 

# ./configure --with-cards=emu10k1 --with-sequencer=yes

[and so on]

 

You will find plenty of info about supported chips and cards plus many installation docs on ...

 

> http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/

 

Lil tip: If you ever plan to give Doom3/Linux a go, also activate the otherwisely deprecated OSS, as this is the only sound-system Doom3 supports (haven't tested if it would also run without OSS as I have OSS installed anyway for some sound-apps)

 

hope that helps

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Also check to see if alsa is not muted. Try as root user, typing in a console alsamixer and see if the settings are muted. Set the volumes all the way up and try sound again.

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