Re: [Alsa-user] installing alsa on Debian Sarge

[jpshark <jpo...@sa...>]

OK, I got the source package. I'll read through the readme.debian file
and see what I can do with it. Thanks for the info.
/JP


On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 21:19 +0100, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> jpshark wrote:
> > Mikael, I was wondering if you could help me understand something. I
> > installed the Audigy LS in place of the SB live and, of course, as you
> > said it didn't work. First off, I don't know what the term 'blacklisted'
> > means as it applies to Linux sound issues. Can you explain? Also, the
> > confusion I suffer from comes from the fact that when I installed Linux,
> > I had the SB live card in my rig. Apparently the install process
> > recognized the card and that's why it worked. I never built any modules
> > or loaded any for it. I assumed that was because the support was
> > built-in. Since the support is built-in for the Audigy LS as well, or so
> > I thought, I figured it would work, which, of course was wrong. Why does
> > the SB live work without building a module but the Audigy LS does not?
> > Sorry about all the questions. I'm hoping that if you can help me
> > understand the difference, it will help me with my future endeavors with
> > Linux and ALSA. Thanks.
> > /JP
> > 
> 
> The SB Live drivers are included in the Linux kernel and built as 
> modules in the Debian kernel-image packages. When booting hotplug will 
> detect the hardware and load appropriate modules. Since the Audigy LS 
> driver haven't been included in the kernel yet, you have to build it 
> from the alsa-driver source.
> 
> You should install the alsa-source Debian package (it contains the 
> driver sources) and read the compilation instructions in 
> /usr/share/doc/alsa-source/README.Debian.
> 
> /Mikael Magnusson
> 
> 
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