debian questions

debian questions

[Tom Masterson]

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Hi all

I am sort of new to linux though I've worked with unix off and on for years.  I installed debian on one of my spare machines and it is having some problems.  I don't know how to get it to load a driver for my sound card which is a plug=and=play on a pci slot.  If I do lspci it know the card is there and even gives it an interrupt that is valid and it looks like the rest of the info should be valid however I don't know what I need to do to load a device driver for it.  I also can't get the pcmcia slots to work righ.ykyigograb an interrupt that is actually in use and I don't seem to be able ot make it work with just polling.  THe computer has two serial ports, a modem (also not found but not needed at this point), a video card, a pcmcia controler, a network card (which works), a sound card, a usb set, and a parallel port.  I think that is all there is other than two hard=drives, a cdrom, and a floppy.

Tom

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Re: debian questions

[Attila Konietzka]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:54:16AM -0700, Tom Masterson wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I am sort of new to linux though I've worked with unix off and on for years.  I installed debian on one of my spare machines and it is having some problems.  I don't know how to get it to load a driver for my sound card which is a plug=and=play on a pci slot.  If I do lspci it know the card is there and even gives it an interrupt that is valid and it looks like the rest of the info should be valid however I don't know what I need to do to load a device driver for it.  I also can't get the pcmcia slots to work righ.ykyigograb an interrupt that is actually in use and I don't seem to be able ot make it work with just polling.  THe computer has two serial ports, a modem (also not found but not needed at this point), a video card, a pcmcia controler, a network card (which works), a sound card, a usb set, and a parallel port.  I think that is all there is other than two hard=drives, a cdrom, and a floppy.
Hello.
Maybe i can share my expiriences with you.
You might inroder to get your soundcard up and running install the
kernel-image 2.4.22 and the corresponding alsa-modules-2.4.22 found in the
debian software repository.
A good and user-friendly tool to do searches and installations of packages
confortably is aptitude which is also available on debian.
After everything is set up and your boot-config is checked you might boot up
(hopefully everything went well) and you might do a simple alsaconf when you
are logged in as root, and this might very well recognize your plug-and-play
sound-card.
Basicly that's what i did and i am using a cmi8738 sound-driver on an asus
mainboard, and i had no problems in get the card basically running.
If you need further information just stay in touch, glad if i can help.
Unfortunately i have only had bad expiriences with compiling kernels onmy
own, but as i am also a linux newbie maybe someday i'll love to build my
kerlens on my own.
Regards, Attila.
> 
> Tom

Re: debian questions

[Simon Waters]

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Tom Masterson wrote:
>
> I am sort of new to linux though I've worked with unix off and on for
> years.  I installed debian on one of my spare machines and it is having
> some problems.  I don't know how to get it to load a driver for my sound
> card which is a plug=and=play on a pci slot.  If I do lspci it know the
> card is there and even gives it an interrupt that is valid and it looks
> like the rest of the info should be valid however I don't know what I
> need to do to load a device driver for it.  I also can't get the pcmcia
> slots to work righ.ykyigograb an interrupt that is actually in use and I
> don't seem to be able ot make it work with just polling.

Debian has a sound configuration package (try "apt-cache search sound"
or "apt-cache search alsa" I forget which and my Debian box is off at
the moment - I think "sound-conf" is the proper name).

This will usually detect the driver you need and write the appropriate
alsa.conf file.

The interface to Debian configure is a curses menu type thing, usually
it automatically selects the most appropriate driver, and asks you to
confirm it.

Also I think the default is no volume, so run a mixer to turn the volume
up, aumix is text based mixer I found works well, if you can figure out
the sliding ascii bars.

Once configured "/etc/init.d/alsa start|stop" should load and unload
modules.
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Re: debian questions

[Nath]

Hi all,

In fact the package to configure ALSA is alsaconf.
Hope this help,



Simon Waters <Simon@wretched.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Tom Masterson wrote:
>>
>> I am sort of new to linux though I've worked with unix off and on for
>> years.  I installed debian on one of my spare machines and it is having
>> some problems.  I don't know how to get it to load a driver for my sound
>> card which is a plug=and=play on a pci slot.  If I do lspci it know the
>> card is there and even gives it an interrupt that is valid and it looks
>> like the rest of the info should be valid however I don't know what I
>> need to do to load a device driver for it.  I also can't get the pcmcia
>> slots to work righ.ykyigograb an interrupt that is actually in use and I
>> don't seem to be able ot make it work with just polling.
>
> Debian has a sound configuration package (try "apt-cache search sound"
> or "apt-cache search alsa" I forget which and my Debian box is off at
> the moment - I think "sound-conf" is the proper name).
>
> This will usually detect the driver you need and write the appropriate
> alsa.conf file.
>
> The interface to Debian configure is a curses menu type thing, usually
> it automatically selects the most appropriate driver, and asks you to
> confirm it.
>
> Also I think the default is no volume, so run a mixer to turn the volume
> up, aumix is text based mixer I found works well, if you can figure out
> the sliding ascii bars.
>
> Once configured "/etc/init.d/alsa start|stop" should load and unload
> modules.
>
>
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