Debian alsa install

Make sure you have a kernel source tree that you've already compiled from. The kernel must have sound support turned ON in your kernel settings soundcore module. Any other kernel options regarding sound can be switched OFF. Of course, you need a sound card that is supported by ALSA.

Check out the ALSA sound card matrix. I recommend you get the drivers, the libraries, the utils and the OSS compat modules to start with. Next, put them into some directory, e. Note: To avoid problems, stick to the order the modules are installed here, i. To get a complete list of all options:.

If you only have one card e. These include the alsamixer program and other very useful helpers. Use lsmod to check the installed modules and rmmod to uninstall.

Then modprobe the new modules. See Troubleshooting for other solutions. Kernel 2. What's the output of lspci grep "Audio"? What devices are available in your sound settings? Post by Lavene » Have you tried to run "alsaconf" as root? Post by paivakil » It is likely a sound card configuration issue. Look into what happens when you issue the command "alsamixer". Make sure that the sliders suffficiently "loud" enough. Post by scoober » just to add to the last post.

I found that when I first installed alsa recently, all the sliders were set low and muted. Took me a while to work out why I was not getting sound, but a few seconds with alsamixer fixed it. Post by Wicked Life » yea lol i feel stupid now i thought i checked that because the main one was unmuted, but all the other sliders were muted thanks guys. Board index All times are UTC. The same is not true of ALSA's userspace library, which can be replaced. A sound server will sit between ALSA and your applications.

These will traditionally be PulseAudio for easy and automatic audio , JACK for professional-grade low-latency audio , or PipeWire for any use-case, but is still experimental. A sound server is not necessary as applications can output sound to ALSA directly, but some applications will make use of a sound server's API and require it to be available in order to produce sound. PulseAudio will, by default, take control of all ALSA devices and redirect all audio streams to itself. The rest of this article will assume that you are not using an intermediary sound server and that you're using ALSA exclusively.

This is very uncommon these days, though it still may be of interest to some. If you're a typical end-user, you're probably more interested in the page for the sound server you're using likely PulseAudio Contents Packages Loading modules Testing Configuration Troubleshooting No sound output Wrong card used by default No sound after reboot Checklist More information Packages libasound2 - This package contains the ALSA userspace library and its standard plugins, as well as the required configuration files.

You almost definitely want to install this in a pure-ALSA environment. See the package description for specifics. May assist in making some specific audio hardware functional.