The Testing Area :: alsa.dsl for 2.0



joer, I know that the snddevices script creates some devices in the /dev directory.  I'm not sure you can save them to a backup because of the permissions required when you try to restore (they are owned by root).

It might be possible to add alsa.dsl to the root of your liveCD.  This would load alsa for you at startup and then you might be able to add /opt/alsa/alsastart to the /opt/bootlocal.sh script and add bootlocal.sh to your backup.  I haven't tried this out, though.
Since it took some time to figure out how to get my sound working on a Thinkpad 380xd, I thought I'd share...

I installed the gnu-utils using myDSL as per the alsa.dsl.info - no problem.
I downloaded the alsa.dsl from the testing area and installed it using emelFM.  It appeared to run OK but there was nothing to configure my sound.
I added the "alsa" boot parameter to the "append=..." section in my lilo.conf (I'm running from HD and I'm a linux noob so it took forever to discover where to put this parameter for a HD install!)
I needed to run "alsaconf" manually.  I selected the cs4232 (my card shows as a cs4231 or something) ISA card and it worked!  
Now I just have to figure out how to play audio CD's with xMMs!

-Hopefully I didn't leave out anything critical, it was a pain in the a$$ to get it working but I have sound and I'm happy! :D
mvv, There should have been a new option in the dsl right click menu (DSL -> myDSL -> setup alsa) to setup alsa.

I'm glad at least it worked for you in the end.
That's good to know, I hadn't noticed it in it there.  I expected something to popup and ask If I wanted to configure my sound.  When that didn't happen I started searching these forums to see what I missed instead of looking for changes to my UI.  

Thanks for putting this add-in together, it's much appreciated!

Cheers
I cant seem to get this to work. My lappy is a toshiba Tecra 730cdt. I have a HDD install, with the gnu-utils already present. I got this package for the 2.0 dsl, right click....run the alsa script.......nothing. Is there supposed to be a menu to select chipsets or something? The thing just looks like a command line............runs by real fast and then dissapears without asking me anything.
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