[App_rpt-users] Debian Wheezy and RPi update

[Doug Crompton]

Buddy,

 I am using the latest stable Debian Wheezy - kernel 3.2.0-4-686-pae but you still need to use the acid release with old asterisk and I used the latest dahdi not zaptel compiled from source. I am not seeing any audio issues. Here are some of my notes on audio in Debian....

Installing Asterisk Allstar on a Debian system, sound issues.

I am specifically addressing Debian Wheezy release but this should apply to all late Debian releases including Raspbien on the Pi.

Removing the Pulseaudio code is optional if it is there to begin with. It probably does not hurt to leave it in but if you aren't going to use it why have it there taking up space. For me it worked with it in or out. To remove do the following steps.

killall pulseaudio

If it is not running this will just tell you that. No problem, just checking that its not running before removing.

apt-get purge pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio libpulse-browse0 paman pavumeter pavucontrol

You may not have all of these install, delete those that are.

Now make sure ALSA is installed.

apt-get install alsa-base alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils alsa-oss alsamixergui libalsaplayer0

You may not need all of these but it does not hurt to install them. Base, tools, utils, and alsa-oss are the important ones.

Possible problems

If you get an error from Allstar that /dev/dsp does not exist make sure the snd-pcm-oss module is loaded.

modprobe snd-pcm-oss

Loading this creates the /dev/dsp file.

To force the loading at each boot if necessary add

snd-pcm-oss   to the /etc/modules file.

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


> Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Debian Wheezy and RPi update
> From: buddy at brannan.name
> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 17:39:15 -0400
> To: doug at crompton.com
> 
> Hi Doug,
> 
> I’m running currently on Acid, but if the truth be known, I’m a Debian guy at heart and would really rather be using that. 
> 
> So does this mean that the audio issues or what have you in the 3.X kernels are resolved? Or do we need to get an older version of debian? I have a system running Wheezy, and I had a later version of Asterisk on it for other stuff. 

 		 	   		  
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