debian: what sound drivers ?

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:34:22PM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote
> On January 21, 2004 09:21 pm, Chris Aitken wrote:
> 
> > > 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
> 
> That will get you a list of packages that mention alsa.  You can find the 
> appropriate one for your kernel from that list per instructions below.
> 
> > > 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".
> 
> You probably need alsa-base and alsa-utils in addition to the appropriate 
> kernel modules.

  My approach is to run
dselect
and select 2 [S]elect
<spacebar> to get out of the intro then search with the command
/alsa-modules

dselect tells you if anything extra is required when you select a module.

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