Multimedia :: No sound!!

Installing ALSA under DSL versions <= 1.5 (tested with i810_audio device):

1. Use 'dsl alsa' boot option.
2. Download 'alsadebs.dsl' from MyDSL. Verify that it's under the MyDSL menuitem, but DON'T run it.
3. Download 'gnu-utils.dsl' from MyDSL.
4. Download 'dsl-dpkg.dsl' from MyDSL.
5. Select 'Install ALSA' from MyDSL menuitem.
6. A terminal window will popup and some text will roll by. The text in my terminal window was black so I moved it in the lower right hand corner of the desktop to see it better. The terminal window will close when the installation is complete.
7. Open xMMs and press play. You should hear classical music if the installation was a success.

Notes:
A. I noticed when I booted DSL 1.5, autoconfigure detected the soundcard as 'auto'. This seems normal for this DSL release and the steps listed above should get sound up and running on your system. Under DSL 2.0, autoconfigure correctly detected my sound card as i810_audio and I used alsa.dsl to configure sound under that version. I don't know why this is different (newer version under 2.0 perhaps), but If anyone has a quick answer why, please post FMI.
B. I correctly installed alsa using the steps listed above in that order. I did not verify it for any other order. I chose this way because this is similar to the order (downloaded the alsa package first) I used to get alsa running on 2.0. If anyone has tried it another way and had success, please post.
C. You may notice the mixer go away after booting to DSL using the alsa boot option. You can bring it back by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to close the X session and typing 'exit' at the prompt. You can do this after an alsa installation under 2.0 as well as under a <= 1.5 installation.

If these steps work for any other sound devices, especially for laptops, please post your results. If not, try using DSL 2.0 and the instructions I posted 2 replys before this one.

Phinger, you said that you "did all this, but got stuck at #7 (the terminal app didnt run)."

Would you do me a favor and try this so I can try to see what's going on? Boot from a liveCD of dsl version 2.0 (alsa.dsl only works for 2.0+, not for earlier versions of dsl which require alsadebs.dsl). Load the gnu-utils.dsl and alsa.dsl extension.

Now open a terminal under the right click menu. You are using one of the window managers, right? Even if you aren't this script should be OK. Then enter the following line and press return:

/opt/alsa/alsasetup

what did that display? Did it run the "Alsa Configurator?" It has a blue field, asks you some questions and finds your card. Did that run? If that didn't run, does that script exist? You could optionally copy this text (the above script) and paste it into a terminal window to try it out:

Code Sample

if [ -L /lib/modules/2.4.31/modules.dep ]
then
sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/2.4.31/modules.*
sudo cp /KNOPPIX/lib/modules/2.4.31/modules.* /lib/modules/2.4.31
fi

sudo /sbin/depmod -a
sudo /opt/alsa/snddevices
sudo /usr/sbin/alsaconf

I'll try this later today, and post back.

I cant seem to get the alsa.dsl..............I constantly get the "bad download or checksum" error.

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3. Using MyDSL, get the alsa.dsl package (in MyDSL->Multimedia).
4. Verify that alsa is installed-Right-click on the desktop and select MyDSL. Verify that 'Alsa Config' is there, but DO NOT run it yet.
5. Using MyDSL, get the gnu-utils.dsl package (in MyDSL->System).

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C. For some reason, I needed to download the alsa.dsl package before downloading the gnu-utils.dsl package to make this work. If I downloaded the gnu-utils first, I would get a 'Download or Checksum error' after I downloaded the 'alsa.dsl' package. You can also download the alsa.dsl package using the package list, wget, and emelfm as outlined in the PDF doc that explains how to get other packages from the web.

Get the gnu-utils package first, then alsa.dsl.

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