How I installed alsa - I apt-get installed alsa I then downloaded the drivers and compiled those (dont know if this was needed)
output of dmesg ---Start---Linux version 2.4.22 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)) #1 SMP Fri Nov 28 18:05:01 EST 2003 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000ffc0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000ffc0000 - 000000000fff8000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000000fff8000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 255MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 65472 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 61376 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301 Found and enabled local APIC! Initializing CPU#0 Detected 1396.594 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 2785.28 BogoMIPS Memory: 255264k/261888k available (2023k kernel code, 6236k reserved, 697k data, 140k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 256K CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 256K CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1400MHz stepping 07 per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.27 usecs. SMP motherboard not detected. enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 1396.5981 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 99.7569 MHz. cpu: 0, clocks: 997569, slice: 498784 CPU0<T0:997568,T1:498784,D:0,S:498784,C:997569> Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0) All processors have done init_idle PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda95, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/2440] at 00:1f.0 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED]). pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 9, 2002) PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 02:0a.0 eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xd800, 00:04:5A:48:CB:96, IRQ 3. Universal TUN/TAP device driver 1.5 (C)1999-2002 Maxim Krasnyansky Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M agpgart: Detected Intel i850 chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000 [drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0 [drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel i850 @ 0xf8000000 64MB [drm] Initialized radeon 1.1.1 20010405 on minor 1 [drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel i850 @ 0xf8000000 64MB [drm] Initialized i810 1.2.0 20010920 on minor 2 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1 ICH2: chipset revision 4 ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA DISK drive blk: queue c042a260, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdc: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100b, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: LG CD-RW CED-8080B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=4866/255/63, UDMA(100) hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver. hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver. hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA Partition check: hda: hda1 hda3 SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices es1371: version v0.32 time 18:07:34 Nov 28 2003 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:0c.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.3 es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x09 es1371: found es1371 rev 9 at io 0xdf00 irq 10 es1371: features: joystick 0x0 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: CRY20 (Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev B) Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] usb.c: registered new driver hub host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1 PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:1f.2 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64 host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xef40, IRQ 5 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:1f.4 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.4 to 64 host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xef80, IRQ 9 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb.c: registered new driver hid hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers usb.c: registered new driver usbscanner scanner.c: 0.4.13:USB Scanner Driver usb.c: registered new driver usblp printer.c: v0.11: USB Printer Device Class driver Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. ds: no socket drivers loaded! VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed Adding Swap: 522104k swap-space (priority -1) 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4496 Wed Jul 16 19:03:09 PDT 2003 Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard not found or device busy Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard not found or device busy azt3328: no AZF3328 based soundcards found or device busy Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard not found or device busy Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard not found or device busy azt3328: no AZF3328 based soundcards found or device busy Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard not found or device busy Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard not found or device busy Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard not found or device busy Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard not found or device busy ---End--- I have ran /sbin/update-modules I do remember compiling some sound support in the kernel...dont remember excatly what though... the grep command returns ---Start--- b0x:/home/frank# grep sound /boot/System.map-2.4.22 c01c8460 t kd_nosound c01c8470 T _kd_mksound c02510a0 t __sound_insert_unit c0251170 t __sound_remove_unit c02511c0 t sound_insert_unit c02512a0 t sound_remove_unit c02512d0 T register_sound_special c02513a0 T register_sound_mixer c02513f0 T register_sound_midi c0251440 T register_sound_dsp c0251490 T register_sound_synth c02514e0 T unregister_sound_special c0251510 T unregister_sound_mixer c0251530 T unregister_sound_midi c0251550 T unregister_sound_dsp c0251570 T unregister_sound_synth c02515d0 t soundcore_open c02517b2 t .text.lock.sound_core c03513c0 R __kstrtab_register_sound_special c0351400 R __kstrtab_register_sound_mixer c0351440 R __kstrtab_register_sound_midi c0351480 R __kstrtab_register_sound_dsp c03514c0 R __kstrtab_register_sound_synth c0351500 R __kstrtab_unregister_sound_special c0351540 R __kstrtab_unregister_sound_mixer c0351580 R __kstrtab_unregister_sound_midi c03515c0 R __kstrtab_unregister_sound_dsp c0351600 R __kstrtab_unregister_sound_synth c035bda8 R __ksymtab_register_sound_special c035bdb0 R __ksymtab_register_sound_mixer c035bdb8 R __ksymtab_register_sound_midi c035bdc0 R __ksymtab_register_sound_dsp c035bdc8 R __ksymtab_register_sound_synth c035bdd0 R __ksymtab_unregister_sound_special c035bdd8 R __ksymtab_unregister_sound_mixer c035bde0 R __ksymtab_unregister_sound_midi c035bde8 R __ksymtab_unregister_sound_dsp c035bdf0 R __ksymtab_unregister_sound_synth c0365f7c d sound_timer.0 c0365f90 D kd_mksound c03740a0 d sound_loader_lock c03740c0 d soundcore_fops c03c2cf0 t init_soundcore c03ce09c t __initcall_init_soundcore ---End--- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. 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