[SOLVED] Sound Trouble...

[bero13]

Hello, I'm new to Linux so please bare with me. I installed Debian lenny amd64 a couple days ago and I have only got a few things figured out thus far. I got libdvdcss, and adobe flash along with some neat little games and apps. Well I had no sound at all because I couldn't get my audigy ls working with lenny so I'm useing my onboard sound (a realtek). I changed all my sound options to ALC 880 Analog now I have sound for movies and mp3's but not in games or on the web (ie youtube, farmville). Any help would be appreciated. thanx

[simon]

if you have sound for movies and mp3's then your onboard sound is working just fine. when you say "games" aren't working, do you mean flash games (like the games on websites?). if so, it sounds like a flash problem, since youtube also uses flash.

i wonder if you installed flash while your system was configured for the audigy card, and some configuration specific to flash has stayed in place despite your modifying the audio settings? if so you could try completely removing flash (i forget how this is done on a debian box...something like apt-get remove --purge package_name) and then reinstalling it.

one thing to be careful of if you're "new to linux" is to make sure you let apt (or synaptic) take care of things as much as possible: never manually install something like flash from a website download if you can find an appropriate package in the debian repositories (e.g. via synaptic). debian is a lovely stable distro when you let it do its own complex and carefully thought-out thing: it can get messy though, if you try to mix the debian stuff with your own hacks.

as for, "i have only got a few things figured out thus far", it sounds like you're doing really well: switching to a different audio controller is a significant accomplishment. also, amd64 is (still, unfortunately) slightly trickier than the old 32-bit setup. again debian does a really nice job of integrating 32-bit compatibility libraries and so on seamlessly, so that your 64-bit desktop hardly feels any different (apart from being slightly faster) to the 32-bit version: however, under the surface things are a bit more complicated, and in general it's still a little bit easier for a beginner to get everything working properly on a 32-bit box, than a 64-bit box using 32-bit wine, plugins and so on.

in fact, now that i think about it, flash is one of those things that used to require a bit of trickery to get it working in amd64, and i vaguely remember having to install a 32-bit browser on a (lenny, just like yours) amd64 box once, because a couple of sites with flash kept crashing 64-bit firefox. i'm not saying switch to i386...amd64 is better...i'm just saying, it can be slightly more complex than i386 so you can give yourself even more credit for what you've achieved so far as a new linux user.

if un/re-installing existing stuff doesn't help, the only other thing i can suggest is making sure you have all the necessary packages: for instance i can see a package called "flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound" on the debian website. i don't see why you'd be using oss rather than alsa, but who knows...apt/synaptic makes it easy enough to install something like that and then, if it doesn't help, just uninstall it.

good luck!

[bero13]

Thanks for the vote of confidence and the info.

Its not just flash games its the games that come with the debian software.

So i reinstalled the flash and still no change. also i looked for the "flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound" and i only found a i386 version and i tried installing it anyway and i got a not compatible.

[bero13]

Has anyone found an Audigy LS drivers for debian amd64? That would be prime then i could have surround sound back.

[bero13]

Well i fixed it my self. thanx for the help.