Won't he also need alsa-utils? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 9:58 AM Subject: Re: sarge: getting als to work > Hi. > > The easiest way will be to upgrade to a 2.6 kernel. This way you won't > need to duild the alsa modules from source. > > The 2.4.27 kernel on the installer has an old version of speakup, and > was only intencded for installing. > > I am running a 2.6 kernel with alsa built as modules. All I have to do > to get alsa working is > > apt-get install alsa-base > > You will need to install additional packages to build software that uses > alsa, but that should get sound up and running. > > Hope this helps. > Kenny > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:31:09PM -0400, Christopher Moore wrote: > > Hello, > > I've recently installed debian sarge and want to get sound working. Which > > debian packages to I need to install? I am running the 2.4.27 > > speakup-enabled kernel which came with the talking debian install cd. > > > > I could go back to my old ways and follow the alsa-howto in the goodies the > > goodies directory. But I'm trying to learn the "debian" approach to doing > > things. > > > > tia > > Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
