[Leaplist] more bloody sound issues

[Dan Cherry]

ray wrote:
> Dan Cherry wrote:
>> ray wrote:
>>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=518391
>>>
>>> now that i have installed the ix86 vs of debian etch my SOUND does not
>>> work.  i tried to install the drivers from Asus, but guess what, it
>>> gives big nasty errors like you would not believe.  can not even START
>>> the install process due to its errors in uncompressing its tarball.
>>>
>>> bloody hell will linux ever run properly on this computer and its
>>> hardware?
>>> FYI, still getting pathetic FPS with glxgears and i now have SLI
>>> configured properly so states the xorg.conf created with nvidia-xconfig
>>> tool.
>>>
>>> help getting frustraighted.  i have been trying on and off for 9+ months
>>> to get linux running on this computer, really need some help.
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>> No guarantees, but this might be worth a try...
>> I've had the best luck using a knoppix live cd when detecting
>> hardware.  (Patrick and others are also very savvy on which live cd's
>> are good for detection, so chime in if you have a favorite)
>>
>> If you can get a knoppix live cd to run smoothly with whatever is
>> giving you fits through straight Debian, you might be able to copy the
>> specific knoppix drivers that work, to your debian installation.
>>
>> In fact, if a knoppix (or similar live cd) will run, try an
>> installation.  It might be easier to extract knoppix from the debian
>> base, than to get the debian base to run with other drivers.
>> hth,
> i suppose i should make this note:
> 
> the kernel is the same 2.6.18-3 for both the amd64 and i484, the only
> difference it the archtype.  sound worked great under amd64, does not
> work under i486.

I'm not familiar with i484 at all.  I've used amd64 and left it for i386
(which will most likely appear as i686 when it determines your processor).

> as for using knoppix i can do that, but were do i look, what am i
> looking for etc... to find the sound drivers in order to make this thing
> work under the above kernel.

lsmod will show the modules loaded - find the sound modules and compare 
them between knoppix (while it's running) and what's available on the 
debian installation drive.  If that doesn't give any differences, boot 
the debian drive and see if it's loading different drivers altogether. 
If that's the case, somebody with a better memory than mine should be 
able to direct you toward changing the modules that get loaded (Mark 
helped me with one of those a few years ago, so I know it can be done - 
just don't remember how).

If you're lucky, they will both use the same module names, but knoppix 
will be a different size (showing it was modified), and you can try 
copying the knoppix drivers over the debian drivers (obviously save 
copies of the debian drivers).  This may give you working sound under 
debian when you restart.

-- 
Dan Cherry
dscherry (@) bellsouth.net

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