Debian squeeze comes with Alsa drivers 1.0.21 by default:
cat /proc/asound/version
and you’ll see which version you have installed. Unfortunately my Sony Vaio needs Alsa 1.0.23 to work. Debian Squeeze has alsa-source for 1.0.23 in the repository, so it’s only a question to go into a terminal and use module assistant.
m-a a-i alsa
an ncurses screen will show up while compiling the sources. Just restart and verify that you have the new version.
thanks, wanted to try a more recent alsa version, hopefully this will improve my sound playback cause it sounds worse than my $20 mp3 player
Very good, thanks for the information.
Cheers man! Tried heaps of stuff, and this is what did it.
8)
(And it was so _SO_ easy)
Man you’re great! I have tried for hours to make the sound work with various complicated solutions, until I found your blog… and it worked with no pain!!
Big thanks!
Eugen
kudos. This solution cut through the kruft of other approaches.
m-a command not found! Why? Please help!
Solved! Just run in terminal “apt-get install module-assistant”!