[ltp] help with wireless/sound on R50

[Joshua Megerman]

On Wednesday 02 June 2004 10:03, rick wrote:
> I just managed to get Debian unstable up and running. Things are going
> great except I don't have sound and I want to get wireless up and running.
> It has the built in centrino so I am trying to get the ipw2100 up and
> running. I have never used wireless in linux and I am getting a bit
> confused as I don't know how this should be working.
>
> System Info:
> Debian unstable with kernel 2.6.6-1-686 package
>
> 1) Sound: does anyone have a quick how-to on getting sound up and running?
> I can't find any details of a working R50 in linux-laptop.net. Most of the
> laptops in there seem to have sound working out of the box. I did have
> Mandrake 10 on here for a day and it did have working sound, but of course
> I didn't check it out before I blew it away.
>
Can't help with your wireless (I have madwifi), but I have sound operational.  
Unfortunately I'm not using debian on it (Gentoo), but I'll tell you what I 
did:

I'm using the ALSA modules from the kernel - it uses the intel8x0 driver.  In 
my modules.conf (via modules.d/alsa) I have the following lines:

alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
options snd cards_limit=1

I then use the alsasound startup script that was provided with the alsa-utils 
package and basic sound works.  To get consistant sound in KDE, I had to tell 
kde to use aplay as it's sound helper, but that was all it took.

Good luck!

Josh
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