Hi. the easiest way to get alsa running in Debian is to
apt-get install alsa-base
With the 2.6 kernel using alsa, that's all you should need.
Debian is a package based distro, you can build from source, but (most
of the time) can just install the package and start using the app.
Hope this helps.
Kenny
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 04:53:53PM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> Kernel 2.6 uses alsa drivers by default, and that is great, but the alsa
> utilities are not available and need to be installed separately. The
> problem with that is that the util package matching the kernel alsa
> version will not compile. It dies with this error:
>
> mv: cannot stat `t-ja.gmo': No such file or directory
>
> Anybody have a similar problem? or is there another way to get the
> utilities? I need aplay, arecord, and amixer.
>
>
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