snd-driver(s) in Debian

I am bringing up my first Linux system with Debian. I have used
Knoppix to determine that everything works. However, the Debian
hardware detection does not find the sound device even though Knoppix
finds it and it works well. lsmod tells me which driver is working
under Knoppix, but where do I find a conf file or equiv to tell Debian
what to load. ALSA is in the kernal under Debian but it has nothing
to connect to. The ESS driver used by Knoppix is present on the
Debian system, it is just not detected. There must be some way to
tell Debian to load that driver upon startup.

Any recommendations regarding a book which deals with configuration
would be greatly appreciated also.

High Desert <do_not_use@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
news:u5tp13ljtladgim7gu0qhm4ng1qmu0pn7s@4ax.com:
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> I am bringing up my first Linux system with Debian. I have used
> Knoppix to determine that everything works. However, the Debian
> hardware detection does not find the sound device even though Knoppix
> finds it and it works well. lsmod tells me which driver is working
> under Knoppix, but where do I find a conf file or equiv to tell Debian
> what to load. ALSA is in the kernal under Debian but it has nothing
> to connect to. The ESS driver used by Knoppix is present on the
> Debian system, it is just not detected. There must be some way to
> tell Debian to load that driver upon startup.
>
> Any recommendations regarding a book which deals with configuration
> would be greatly appreciated also.
>[/color]

You neglect to mention if this is sarge or etch.

If all you are trying to do is load a module at boottime, adding a line
with the module name in /etc/modules should do it.

If you want to load it now and make sure there are no arguments you have
to add, try
#modprobe <your_sound_module>

additionally, upon doing my etch upgrade I happened to grab discover.
Quite useless to me since I already have a stable setup that doesn't
change each boot and works fine, but nice to see that it detected all my
hardware and noted what was compiled to the kernel, what was in already
loaded modules, and what could use modules not loaded yet. Look it up
and see if it might be useful to you.
#aptitude install discover1



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