[Pkg-alsa-devel] Re: Having ALSA work properly at the end of a d-i install?

[Joey Hess]

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Christian Perrier wrote:
> At the end of the install, a user session is automagically opened and
> I intend to get a nice sound saying "Hello and welcome to your new
> Debian system"...in the current language. The session is a GNome
> session because this is what give all defaults settings.
>=20
> Here comes my nightmare=A0: though the sound card in my test box is
> properly detected (modules are loaded), the sound server in Gnome is
> just unable to use it.

I think there's a good chance that this is due to gstreamer0.8-oss not
being installed as part of the desktop install. Note that this is fixed
as of yesterday in gnome-applets 2.8.1.1-4 in unstable. This prolem with
gnome not working with the OSS sound modules used by default is really a
separate problem from alsa not working.

> I manually tried "alsaconf"...then choose my card....but the result
> was the same.
>=20
> Finally, I figured out that after doing so...just rebooting the
> machine gave me some good working sound.

Probaly this is because on the first boot, the OSS module for your sound
card is loaded. I guess that alsaconf either adds a module to
/etc/modules, or loads it, in either case you need to remove the OSS
module and modprobe the alsa module before alsa will work. Of course a
reboot is one way to do that, not the only way though.

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see shy jo

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