Multimedia :: Audio problem.
Is there an /opt/alsadebs directory in /opt? If so, look inside for the install script and run it from xterm. That will do the same thing as the menu. Not sure why you are having this issue.
Chris
There was an /opt/alsadebs directory, and I was able to run the script it contained. I tried the game barrage.dsl, but I got the error "No available audio device"
Is there anything else I need to run? I didn't have the menu item, does it give you setup options like choosing the card if it isn't autodetected?
when I ran the script I saw this error (nothing to do with no menu but maybe to do with no sound)
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Setting up pciutils (2.1.9-4) ...
Setting up knx-alsa (0.1-8) ...
Preparing modules for alsa...
Preparing master knoppix for alsa...
depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.4.26/modules.dep for writing
Setting up libgpmg1 (1.19.6-12) ...
Setting up aumix (2.7-18) ...
Preparing modules for alsa...
Building card database..
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Are you running the script as user "root"?
Also, are you running from an hd install or a livecd/frugal/poorman's system?
I'm running as user dsl and I'm running from the CD (no HD recognition, so no way to install to the hard drive).
So far my experience on this brand new very good machine has been a complete cluster: no sound, no network card recognition, and no hard drive recognition. People told me "yeh it's there, look under the slot for the HD, Windows XP is no problem if your only reading from the drive. We'll, it is a problem, I only see a 0 for the name of the hard drive, and it says the drive is busy when I try to mount it under the slot. The network card config under the menu can't find any network card, but I know it works because I can use it now in XP. If the sound works, I can say I'll keep trying, hell, if one of those three worked I'd keep going. Is Dell trying to crush Linux by making the new machines incompatible with dsl? I've been quietly using dsl for about 4 months on my old machine, but it was too old and didn't handle some of the bigger apps.
Thanks so much for the help. Sorry to vent, but I'm frustrated.
If you have a Dell, your "Dell Utility Partition" is probably located at "hda1" and your Windows partition is located at "hda2"
New Dell desktops come with SATA hard drives which are unsupported by DSL at the moment. Don't know about laptops, though.
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