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Mon 12th Nov 00:14 2007: Debian ALSA Sound

More than a month after getting my new laptop (Lenovo), my final problem with Debian Testing ("Lenny") has been resolved.

Audio works fine with ALSA, but Flash plugins don't have any audio. It was one of those minor irritants, relatively low on the list, but I couldn't find the answer anywhere. After lots of trial and error, the solution turns out to be incredibly simple:

usermod -a -G audio steve

http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/sound.htm has the answer (though it was actually a IRC log which pointed me to the solution)

From reversing the fix, it seems that's not the only part of the solution. I had also (by picking through synaptic) installed the following:
gnome-alsamixer
lib64asound2
lib64asound2-dev
libasound2-dev
libasound2-plugins
libasyncns0
libesd0
libesd-alsa0
libpulse0
libsamplerate0
libsox0
mpg123-alsa
python-alsaaudio

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