[ale] Debian sound part II

[zeb]

On Thursday 13 January 2005 22:15, James Sumners wrote:
> May be time for a new sound card. AC97 cards are horrid any way.
>
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:09:39 -0500
>
> Jay Loden <jloden at toughguy.net> wrote:
> > Quick update, I found this in dmesg just now:
> >
> > ALSA sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:1794: AC'97 0 does not respond -
> > RESET ALSA sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:1802: AC'97 0 access is
> > not valid [0x0], removing mixer.
> > ALSA sound/pci/ali5451/ali5451.c:1895: ali mixer creating error.
> > ALSA sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:1794: AC'97 0 does not respond -
> > RESET ALSA sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:1802: AC'97 0 access is
> > not valid [0x0], removing mixer.
> > ALSA sound/pci/ali5451/ali5451.c:1895: ali mixer creating error.
> >
> > Anyone know what this is?  I'm guess I'm going to need to go hack
> > around in /etc/modprobe.d  or something, but I'm not familiar
> > with it. -Jay
 
I run Slackware myself, so I know nothint about Debian.  I have 
installed ALSA.  After installing alsa-driver, alsa-lib, alsa-oss, 
and alsa-utils, one must insert the modules: modprobe snd-xxx 
(specific to your card), snd-pcm-oss, snd-mixer-oss, and snd-seq-oss. 
It's probably good to put those in rc.local.  Also you need to change 
permissions:  chmod 666 dsp* mixer* seq* midi* audio* music.  Have a 
look at ALSA-projects.org