debian: what sound drivers ?

[Chris Aitken]

Fraser Campbell wrote:

> On January 17, 2004 04:04 pm, Peter L. Peres wrote:
>
> > What sound drivers does Debian use ? OSS ?
>
> Whichever ones you want it to.
>
> 2.4 kernels come only with OSS drivers as far as I know.  Do an "apt-cache
> search alsa"

That's the syntax?

apt-cache search alsa

> and you'll see modules for alsa that can be installed if that is
> what you want.  If you're running kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 then you would
> have to "apt-get install alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-686".
>
> If you're running the 2.6 kernel you get your choice of alsa or oss drivers.
>

Chris

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