debian lenny and sound card

debian lenny and sound card

[Keith Barrett]

I am about to start trying to get sound working on my debian lenny box.

Wondering about the best way to achieve this.  I am working from the 
command line so after installing the base system, I backed out of the 
install and just used apt-get to get the packages I wanted.

I have been googling but have found a howto using alsa but I note from 
one of the lists, possibly this one that lenny is using jack for sound.  
Is this for the command line?

The howto was for an older version of debian.

I would consider installing gnome and orca if this would make things 
less complicated but I think I was really only want the gui for browsing 
the net and I am not sure that orca is solid enough yet.

So, should I use this alsa howto or is there a better way?

Thanks and sorry for the list clutter but not many howto's out there for 
lenny yet.

Keith

Re: debian lenny and sound card

[Zachary Kline]

Hi Keith,
    I'm running Lenny under Qemu virtualization.
    It does not use Jack for sound, so far as I'm aware.  It just uses basic 
Alsa.
    Since I'm running Qemu with emulated generic hardware, it was enough for 
me to let Udev and the kernel autodetect my card.  I didn't have to run 
alsaconf or any other such utility, just alsamixer and/or amixer to change 
sound volumes and such.
    I can't speak to your specific situation.  For the record, I didn't back 
out of the installer but just told it to only install the base system 
without any GUI.  That includes kernel modules.  I can't specifically 
remember whether Alsa was installed along with it or not.  I may have 
aptituded it.  After doing so, it just worked.
    I hope this long-winded explaination is somehow helpful.
Best,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Barrett" <lists@barrettpianos.co.uk>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 2:01 PM
Subject: debian lenny and sound card


>I am about to start trying to get sound working on my debian lenny box.
>
> Wondering about the best way to achieve this.  I am working from the
> command line so after installing the base system, I backed out of the
> install and just used apt-get to get the packages I wanted.
>
> I have been googling but have found a howto using alsa but I note from
> one of the lists, possibly this one that lenny is using jack for sound.
> Is this for the command line?
>
> The howto was for an older version of debian.
>
> I would consider installing gnome and orca if this would make things
> less complicated but I think I was really only want the gui for browsing
> the net and I am not sure that orca is solid enough yet.
>
> So, should I use this alsa howto or is there a better way?
>
> Thanks and sorry for the list clutter but not many howto's out there for
> lenny yet.
>
> Keith
>
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music composing?

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi all,
any options here, even if only using a computer keyboard for the job?
Karen

Re: music composing?

[Alonzo]

hey Karen,

Your best bet would be lillypond. It only sounds accessible since you 
write everything out by hand. So you learn the language asociated with 
lilypond and write in their word processor. I'm not sure how accessible 
it is though since I've never used it. It sounded promising though.

alonzo

On 02/05/2009 06:44 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> Hi all,
> any options here, even if only using a computer keyboard for the job?
> Karen
>
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Re: music composing?

[Karen Lewellen]

lillypond?
ahem,
would someone please tell me who decides on these names?
lol!
will give it a...splash though, sounds like it might be fun.
Karen

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Alonzo wrote:

> hey Karen,
>
> Your best bet would be lillypond. It only sounds accessible since you write 
> everything out by hand. So you learn the language asociated with lilypond and 
> write in their word processor. I'm not sure how accessible it is though since 
> I've never used it. It sounded promising though.
>
> alonzo
>
> On 02/05/2009 06:44 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>>  Hi all,
>>  any options here, even if only using a computer keyboard for the job?
>>  Karen
>>
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Re: debian lenny and sound card

[Keith Barrett]

Hi Jack,

Thanks for the info.

I got some noise from the speakers now so going in the right direction. 
  Had to apt-get install alsa-base and it all came to life.

Now, any suggestions for a player?  Need to play mp3 but playing other 
formats would be good.  Needs to work with speakup.

Thanks



Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hi Keith,
>    I'm running Lenny under Qemu virtualization.
>    It does not use Jack for sound, so far as I'm aware.  It just uses 
> basic Alsa.
>    Since I'm running Qemu with emulated generic hardware, it was enough 
> for me to let Udev and the kernel autodetect my card.  I didn't have to 
> run alsaconf or any other such utility, just alsamixer and/or amixer to 
> change sound volumes and such.
>    I can't speak to your specific situation.  For the record, I didn't 
> back out of the installer but just told it to only install the base 
> system without any GUI.  That includes kernel modules.  I can't 
> specifically remember whether Alsa was installed along with it or not.  
> I may have aptituded it.  After doing so, it just worked.
>    I hope this long-winded explaination is somehow helpful.
> Best,
> Zack.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Barrett" 
> <lists@barrettpianos.co.uk>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 2:01 PM
> Subject: debian lenny and sound card
> 
> 
>> I am about to start trying to get sound working on my debian lenny box.
>>
>> Wondering about the best way to achieve this.  I am working from the
>> command line so after installing the base system, I backed out of the
>> install and just used apt-get to get the packages I wanted.
>>
>> I have been googling but have found a howto using alsa but I note from
>> one of the lists, possibly this one that lenny is using jack for sound.
>> Is this for the command line?
>>
>> The howto was for an older version of debian.
>>
>> I would consider installing gnome and orca if this would make things
>> less complicated but I think I was really only want the gui for browsing
>> the net and I am not sure that orca is solid enough yet.
>>
>> So, should I use this alsa howto or is there a better way?
>>
>> Thanks and sorry for the list clutter but not many howto's out there for
>> lenny yet.
>>
>> Keith
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>>
>>
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Re: debian lenny and sound card

[Zachary Kline]

Hi,
    I personally go in for Mplayer.  It'll play nearly anything you throw at 
it, especially if you don't mind adding the proprietary codecs along with 
it.  Debian gives you an easy way to do that.
    That being said, this is more than a little subjective.  I'm sure 
everybody else has their own ideas.
Hope this helps,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Barrett" <lists@barrettpianos.co.uk>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: debian lenny and sound card


> Hi Jack,
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> I got some noise from the speakers now so going in the right direction. 
> Had to apt-get install alsa-base and it all came to life.
>
> Now, any suggestions for a player?  Need to play mp3 but playing other 
> formats would be good.  Needs to work with speakup.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>