Hi Jack, Thanks for the info. I got some noise from the speakers now so going in the right direction. Had to apt-get install alsa-base and it all came to life. Now, any suggestions for a player? Need to play mp3 but playing other formats would be good. Needs to work with speakup. Thanks Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi Keith, > I'm running Lenny under Qemu virtualization. > It does not use Jack for sound, so far as I'm aware. It just uses > basic Alsa. > Since I'm running Qemu with emulated generic hardware, it was enough > for me to let Udev and the kernel autodetect my card. I didn't have to > run alsaconf or any other such utility, just alsamixer and/or amixer to > change sound volumes and such. > I can't speak to your specific situation. For the record, I didn't > back out of the installer but just told it to only install the base > system without any GUI. That includes kernel modules. I can't > specifically remember whether Alsa was installed along with it or not. > I may have aptituded it. After doing so, it just worked. > I hope this long-winded explaination is somehow helpful. > Best, > Zack. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Barrett" > <lists at barrettpianos.co.uk> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 2:01 PM > Subject: debian lenny and sound card > > >> I am about to start trying to get sound working on my debian lenny box. >> >> Wondering about the best way to achieve this. I am working from the >> command line so after installing the base system, I backed out of the >> install and just used apt-get to get the packages I wanted. >> >> I have been googling but have found a howto using alsa but I note from >> one of the lists, possibly this one that lenny is using jack for sound. >> Is this for the command line? >> >> The howto was for an older version of debian. >> >> I would consider installing gnome and orca if this would make things >> less complicated but I think I was really only want the gui for browsing >> the net and I am not sure that orca is solid enough yet. >> >> So, should I use this alsa howto or is there a better way? >> >> Thanks and sorry for the list clutter but not many howto's out there for >> lenny yet. >> >> Keith >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > __________ NOD32 3829 (20090205) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > >
