Installing/Configuring ALSA Sound Modules In Debian

GonzoJohn writes "Linux Orbit explains how: "A very common question that comes up when trying Debian GNU/Linux is how the heck do you get Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (a.k.a. ALSA) sound modules set up properly? In this HOWTO we'll show you how to compile and install the ALSA kernel modules, and then setup things using the ALSA Debian script so that modules are automatically loaded and unloaded, and your mixer levels are saved and restored on boot up. Here are some things you'll need to have before you start this HOWTO""

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3 quick steps for advanced linux sound

[Kip Diamond]

1.) Install linux 2.) Format your computer 3.) Install windows XP

You're absolutely RIGHT!

[Kip Diamond]

When Linux newbies have a lack of HOWTOs and sound support is diffuclt to implement, at best they are going to fool around with Linux for a day or two and then go back to their MP3 collection under Windows Yeah, I know what you are talking about. I decided last month to try to go to Linux, so with the help of my local bearded Linux guru, I installed Debian. After it was up and running I was thinking to myself "Whoah, this is cool. So far, I like it better than XP." The GUI was simple and easy, and I customize what I wanted. Best of all, it was free from Microsoft and their corporate monopoly. A few hours in, I ran XMMS, hoping to "rokk" out to my hours of music. I was hosting a party later that night also, and I was planning on using my linux computer + klipsch speakers to play all the music for the party, knowing my computer was dependable. Well, an hour before the party, I tried to test out some music......nothing. No sound. I said, "No sweat, I'll just get the linux guru." Well, that didn't help. After recompiling the kernel a few times, we STILL had no sound. By this time, people for the party had started to arrive at my house. Well, let me tell you, a party with out "bumping" music is TERRIBLE. Everyone was bored to death. It was the quietest party ever, and probably one of the few without music. I was made fun of for a few weeks, and lost plenty of respect, but now I'm please to have reinstalled Windows Xp and have music working again. Well, what I'm really trying to say is that if we had had that HOWTO guide, everything would have worked out fine. I would still be respected by most of my friends, and I'd still be enjoying linux.

Re:"getting sound working" is not the whole story.

[HisMother]

It's quite rare that I read a /. post, especially a highly rated one, that I don't understand at all -- but this is the second one today. "Cakewalk?" "Cubase?" "Fruityloops?" What the hell is this guy talking about? Are there really a lot of people here who understand?

The other one that flummoxed me was on the gambling story; some guy who clearly knew a lot about bookmaking, going on and on about the "vig". Another term I've never heard before, but he was at +5, so I have to assume that lots of other folks have.