To All:

I'm having trouble getting sound to work with Skype, but the
sound works fine with the "built-in" Midi Player (in Xandros
2.0 distribution, Midi Player is included by default). So
I'm guessing I'm missing a bunch of commands given in an
earlier post.

I'm looking at the discussions in

"Unofficial Skype + Linux Sound FAQ"

in this same forum.

It says to add stuffs into /etc/module.conf and gives a
list of commands to add in. My file, /etc/modules.conf,
tells me not to modify this file. Instead, modify the files
in the directory, /etc/modutils , and then, use the
command, update-modules , which creates a new
/etc/modules.conf . My question is which of the these
files in /etc/modutils do I mess around with?

/etc/modutils has

0keep
1devfsd
actions
aliases
apm
diald
ltmodem-aliases
nvidia-aliases
paths
pctel-options
slmdm.aliases

plus a subdirectory, arch , which includes what I have,
i386 .

One thing, I'm still alittle confused about the difference
between ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) and OSS
Open Sound System. I did a search on my laptop for *oss*
and *alsa*. There seems to alot of oss and alsa files.
I don't need to download any driver, correct?

Fyi, the sound card infos are;

desc = SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator
driver = i810 audio
manu = Silicon Integrated Systems
pci = 0x1039, 0x7012, 0x17

Also, I just recently downloaded and using Skype Beta
version 0.90.0.14 .

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advanced
for any help.

Sheng-Chieh

Not too familiar with Xandros, but most likely you can simply make a new file in /etc/modutils (call it "alsa" or something), edit it with your favourite text editor, and add the appropriate lines (see the FAQ and make modifications as you need). When that's done, run update-modules to regenerate modules.conf. If you take a look at modules.conf it should now contain the new stuff in /etc/modutils/alsa.

OSS and ALSA are two fundamentally different sound architectures and driver collections. The old OSS system was used up until kernel version 2.4.X, but was replaced by the newer and more actively maintained ALSA system in kernel version 2.6.X. 2.4 kernels can of course be "retrofitted" with ALSA. In general, ALSA has better hardware support, supports more features and is more actively maintained than the OSS system, so there's really no reason not to use it. ALSA even provides backward compatibility with OSS applications via the OSS emulation layer.

Hope that helps-

Thank you for replying. A followup question, just
to be sure I don't wreck anything.

[I'm trying to understand how one could just merely
throw in a new file. Don't seem to understand the
script, /sbin/update-modules .]

I'm guessing, if I create a new file /etc/modutils/alsa ,
then the script, update-modules , will gather
everything in the /etc/modutils directory and create
a new file, modules.conf . Correct?

Btw, fyi, Xandros is Debian-based. In fact, many of the
system file say "script for Debian GNU/Linux". So most
thing correct for Debian will probably work for Xandros.
[But I suspect not everything.]

Again, thanks in advance for any help.

Sheng-Chieh

Since the things you are instructed to add are aliases my bet is that you should add them to the aliases file.

But none of this may be necessary if sound is working already. In fact, most distros get the sound working and there is no need to touch /etc/modules.conf.

Yes, that's correct - any file placed in /etc/modutils will be read and included in /etc/modules.conf.