Conﬁguring Sound, Inserting the Sound LKM

InputDevice	"Configured Mouse"
InputDevice	"Logitech Mouse"
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For reference, my /etc/gpm.conf looks like this:

device=/dev/input/mice

responsiveness=30 repeat_type=raw type=imps2 append="" sample_rate=

The important clauses there are the device, the repeat type, and the type. Mine is ImPS/2 (imps2, because it has a scrolly wheel; yours might just be plain old PS/2 ps2).

4Conﬁguring Sound

Of the least importance to functionality, but perhaps the most importance to long-term productivity in the work environment being conﬁgured, I need to be able to listen to music. I have access to a great music share on Windoze, so I needed to get samba (see Section 2) working ﬁrst.

I’ve had many battles with sound cards, and this one was the least of all of them. There are speciﬁc Linux sound HOW-TOs out there5, and they were kind of useful — but this was a pretty trivial conﬁguration.

First oﬀ, just try playing something logged in as yourself. If that works, you’re good to go. If not, read on.

4.1Inserting the Sound LKM

Check out what sound card you have (‘/sbin/lspci‘ shows the devices you have installed). The relevant line looked like this for me:

Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 10)

Of course, to be able to do anything with sound, you’ll have to have the right drivers or modules in your kernel. I was using the plain old stock 2.4.20 kernel, which had the Maestro enabled as a module (see Section 5 for kernel info

&caveats), so all it took was a little creative guessing and a ‘locate maestro‘ to ﬁgure out which module it would be. Then all I had to do was insert it:

spycellar:# modprobe maestro3

5http://new.linuxnow.com/docs/content/Sound-HOWTO-html/Sound-HOWTO.html