Im having sound problems with Debian..

BmxFace · 01-11-2005, 03:46 PM

Hey im having problems getting my sound to work and i belive its OSS sound cause its ISA....but its an old creative...i tryed my own kernel but thats just not working well.... any ideas...

redgren · 01-11-2005, 03:52 PM

Any reason you didn't go the ALSA route? I have used ALSA and Debian on ISA sound, and it was fairly simple to setup. (I don't remember how I did it, so it must've been simple).

BmxFace · 01-11-2005, 03:54 PM

well basicly i suck at sound. and i dont know how to set it up ever...so really it hasnt worked since the install and i dont know how to make it work.... :\

BmxFace · 01-11-2005, 03:56 PM

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
soundcore               3268   0  (autoclean)
input                   3040   0  (autoclean)
af_packet              11048   1  (autoclean)
usbcore                52268   1 
ide-scsi                8272   0 
scsi_mod               86052   1  [ide-scsi]
tulip                  35168   1 
crc32                   2848   0  [tulip]
ide-cd                 27072   0 
cdrom                  26212   0  [ide-cd]
rtc                     5768   0  (autoclean)
ext3                   65388   2  (autoclean)
jbd                    34628   2  (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect               288   0  (autoclean) (unused)
sis5513                 9872   1  (autoclean)
ide-disk               12448   3  (autoclean)
ide-core               91832   3  (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-cd ide-detect sis5513 ide-disk]
unix                   12720  45  (autoclean)

That is my lsmod...i have a feeling it will be needed

redgren · 01-11-2005, 07:07 PM

I would say go for ALSA instead of OSS. OSS is being depricated, and ALSA works fairly easily... If you're comfortable recompiling your kernel, go ahead and do it... Here is my .config for the sound stuff (I deleted everything that was included or module). I have an ess1869 sound chip.. If you don't know yours, you can just compile all the ISA devices as modules.

Install the new kernel, and reboot.

Then : "apt-get install alsa-base alsa-utils"

Then : "alsaconf"
alsaconf is a great tool for setting everything up automagically.

Code:

#
# Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
#
CONFIG_SND=y
CONFIG_SND_TIMER=y
CONFIG_SND_PCM=y
CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=m
CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=m
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY=y
CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=m
#
# Generic devices
#
CONFIG_SND_MPU401_UART=m
CONFIG_SND_OPL3_LIB=m
CONFIG_SND_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_SND_VIRMIDI=m
CONFIG_SND_MTPAV=m
CONFIG_SND_SERIAL_U16550=m
CONFIG_SND_MPU401=m

#
# ISA devices
#

CONFIG_SND_ES18XX=m
CONFIG_SND_SB8=m
CONFIG_SND_SB16=m
CONFIG_SND_SBAWE=m
CONFIG_SND_SB16_CSP=y

Deeze · 01-12-2005, 08:12 AM

You might wanna read through this.. http://linuxtimes.net/modules.php?na...sid=457&page=2
Hopefully it will help, if not you might consider coming into the Debian forum here and searching for help.