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CB -

If the alsa.deb is for specific kernels, that is a dirty trick to play on us clueless people who think you just apt-get and it should work!  :p

In Feather I can get get the alsa debain pkg to run on the HD but it tells me I do not have a card installed. That may be the "kernel factor".

DSL .8.0 might help alot of these types of things. A couple dozen of my PC's have CMI8330 chips that gave me fits figuring out with Knoppix 3.3 but 3.4 sets it up right out of the box!  :D

Chris
To be honest, I don't know if the ALSA package is specific to a kernel because I haven't tried too hard to make it work.

However, inside the package name is a reference to a SPECIFIC kernel version, which is why I draw the conclusion that it is intended for a specific kernel version.
FYI,

I am typing this from a livecd boot of DSL version 0.8 and am using alsa to listen to music with xmms.

Unfortunately, I don't know exactly how I got this thing working and I will lose everything at the next reboot.

I will try to figure things out and hopefully create an alsa extension soon.

Here are some things that I have done that I am pretty sure helped:

Boot up dsl with the "dsl alsa" boot command. This avoids the activation of bad non-alsa sound drivers.
Installed the gnu utils dsl package
Tar'ed up the alsa files from knoppix 3.4 livecd and untar'ed them in DSL using the mydsl button as user 'root' in emelfm.
Replaced the symlink /etc/init.d/alsa-autoconfig with one that points to /sbin/alsa_init file
apt-got the following packages from unstable: pciutils, libasound2, ncurses5, aumix, alsa-oss
exited fluxbox to text screen
sudo su to become root
/etc/knoppix-autoconfig
/etc/init.d/alsa-autoconfig
exit
startx
Changed XMMS preferences to point to the ALSA driver.
Started up XMMS from commandline as user 'root' sudo xmms
started up wmix as user 'root'

[Update] I was able to get it to work as a regular user by changing permissions to the /dev/snd directory and also the directory contents. I also did /dev/dsp /dev/adsp type stuff but I believe it was the /dev/snd stuff that made it happen.

I probably missed something, but that's most of what I did.

Stay tuned.
I've been messing around with this some as well ...
Getting alsa working would solve a lot of sound card issues from
trying to use kernel drivers..

I don't have a clue how to accomplish all of this and make a ".dsl"
out of your final config..

My downfall was not using the "knoppix" files, but the debs..

If I can assist, let me know..

73
ke4nt
hey every one i have a problem. i have a DELL server which has Windows XP, but i am using knoppix live on CD v3.6. everything is working. the only thing that is not working is the sound card. it is a on broad sound card. they stupid thing is that i reads that i have a sound card and the driver Intel 97 somthing like that. but no sound comes out. i have tried everything (alsa & etc...). but it still doesnt work. i would appreciate any one would help me with this matter. thank u for ur time .
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