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Hi,

Scott Downie hat gesagt: // Scott Downie wrote:
> If you would like to answer a small question in lieu of one of the

quoted text
> larger questions listed above, here's one: What is the best first step

> I--as a Linux neophyte--can take to get Debian (kernel 2.4.16-k7) to

> make friends with my M-Audio 1010 box?

OK, I'll take the short route :)
The simlest way to install ALSA on Debian is staying with what

apt-get gives you. 
Unfourtunatly alsa-modules-0.9xx ist strongly recommended for your

M-Audio card, IMO. So you need to add a apt-repository for Debian

"testing" to your /etc/apt/sources.list, because testing has ALSA 0.9:
  deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian     testing    main contrib non-free

  deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing    main contrib non-free
Then run "apt-get update" to update the list of available Debian

packages and then install a matching alsa-modules and kernel-image

package like:
$ apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-k7 alsa-modules-2.4.18-k7
Also you need to install libasound2, libasound2-dev, alsa-utils and

alsa-base, some of which might get install with the above command.
You need libasound2-dev, because for the M-Audio 1010 you want the

tool "envy2control" which is not part of Debian yet. You can get it at

ftp.alsa-project.org included in the alsa-tools archive. 
For ALSA modules configuration forget about using alsaconf, but

instead just copy the config from the docs at

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc to /etc/modutils/alsa and run

"update-modules" as root.
After that, a "/etc/init.d/alsa restart" should insert the ALSA

modules, and with envy24control and alsamixer you can unmute the

channels you want to use. Why are they muted? It's better for your

hardware, including ears...
Hope that helps, if not, just ask. That's what we're here for.
ciao

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