Re: [PLUG] debian and sound

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 08:45:23AM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 11:43:23PM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson said:
> > I used to configure sound in Debian using snd-config.  Apt-cache says
> > it's not there anymore.
> > 
> > Knoppix boots and finds sound.  Is there an easy way to configure
> > sound under Debian these days?
> > 
> > I see that /proc/asound/ exists, but neither I nor google have found
> > the right incantation to get ogg123 to see a usable device.
> 
> That means you have an alsa module loaded (snd-foo).  Try alsaconf
> if it doesn't look right.  My first guess, though, if you have a
> /proc/asound (with a reasonable modules and devices in it) and no
> sound, is that you're not in group audio.

I am in group audio, Debian did that for me (remarkably).
Unfortunately, I don't see any alsa stuff installed: should I?

    jeff@astra:~ $ dpkg -l | grep alsa
    jeff@astra:~ $ 

I could install alsa-base, for example, but it'd be a bit blind on my
part.

This is the relevant stuff from /proc/modules, all there by virtue of
Debian's installation:

    jeff@astra:~ $ egrep -i '(snd|sound)' /proc/modules
    snd_via82xx 29540 0 - Live 0xf8f9b000
    snd_mpu401_uart 7968 1 snd_via82xx, Live 0xf8920000
    sound 84300 2 via82cxxx_audio,uart401, Live 0xf8f2d000
    snd_ens1371 24932 0 - Live 0xf8987000
    snd_rawmidi 25124 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_ens1371, Live 0xf896b000
    snd_seq_device 8200 1 snd_rawmidi, Live 0xf895e000
    snd_pcm 98728 2 snd_via82xx,snd_ens1371, Live 0xf89a5000
    snd_page_alloc 11752 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm, Live 0xf8903000
    snd_timer 25732 1 snd_pcm, Live 0xf8907000
    snd_ac97_codec 69988 2 snd_via82xx,snd_ens1371, Live 0xf8974000
    snd 57156 8 snd_via82xx,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_ac97_codec, Live 0xf894f000
    soundcore 10336 5 es1371,via82cxxx_audio,sound,snd, Live 0xf88eb000
    gameport 4704 3 snd_via82xx,es1371,snd_ens1371, Live 0xf88f5000
    jeff@astra:~ $ 

I have two sound cards, one PCI, one on the MB.  I'd like to use the
PCI one.  Here's some lspci output:

    0000:00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
    0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)

Any thoughts?

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 Jeff

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