No sound and no sndconfig

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: No sound and no sndconfig
started by: KahRiboo

Posted by KahRiboo on June 23 2006,16:00

Hi !

I've just installed DSL on my old laptop (P2-233, 160MB, 30GB, No ethernet)...
It works fine but I've no sound... so I wanted to launch sndconfig but it's not installed on my system... or maybe it's not in the $PATH ?

I try to download the .deb from debian mirrors... but dpkg donc work (dpkg/status is missing) ... and I've seen that apt-get is not present too ...

Is all of that normal ?

How can I configure my soundcar ?

Thanks
Lenn.

Posted by piccolo on June 24 2006,09:39

First you need enable APT by open the menu and go Apps >> Tools >> Enable Apt
So then you will be able to install the "sndconfig" Debian package.
Before can be convenient to update the download sources of Debian packages:

sudo su
apt-get update

After the process is finished, download the Debian utility package:

apt-get install sndconfig

Posted by Damn_Small_Jeff on June 26 2006,15:32

i have that problem too, but when i tried the apt get, it says im not authorized. and it asks if im root

Posted by piccolo on June 26 2006,17:00

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i have that problem too, but when i tried the apt get, it says im not authorized. and it asks if im root

Root permission is required to use apt-get command. This command to get root permission:

sudo su

Posted by Damn_Small_Jeff on June 26 2006,23:08

ok, now that works, but apt-get update, apt-get install sndconfig, they dont work

Posted by piccolo on June 27 2006,08:58

Before you need enable APT by open the menu and go Apps >> Tools >> Enable Apt
Internet connection is required when you use the "apt-get update" and "apt-get install sndconfig" commands.