>On Wed Jun 11, 2003 at 12:34:59PM +0300, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote: > [20030611] Abhay Pradhan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I am trying to get sound to work on a dell inspiron 5100. > > Windows reports the soundcard as a sigmatel c major audio card. > > The distro I am using is debian. > > I looked for a linux driver for this soundcard but was not successful. > > Any ideas on how to go about this would be a great help. > > I'd suggest to use ALSA if your sound card is supported. > Do : > $ lspci -v > > to find your sound card's exact type and check the card matrix > at www.alsa-project.org to see if it's supported. > > Then check these pages for how to install alsa (the debian way): > > http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=541&page=1 > > http://www.sonic.net/~rknop/linux/debian_alsa.html
I tried downloading alsa using apt-get. unfortunately, while configuring I get an error ------ herenya:~# apt-get install alsa-source alsa-base alsa-utils Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, alsa-source is already the newest version. Sorry, alsa-base is already the newest version. Sorry, alsa-utils is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 120 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up alsa-modules-2.4.20 (0.9.4-1+1) ... Configuration file for ALSA 0.9 exists. Attempting to start. Setting up alsa-modules-2.4.20 (0.9.4-1+1) ... Configuration file for ALSA 0.9 exists. Attempting to start. Shutting down ALSA (unknown version): not running Starting ALSA (unknown version): failed - ALSA modules not installed invoke-rc.d: initscript alsa, action "restart" failed. dpkg: error processing alsa-modules-2.4.20 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: alsa-modules-2.4.20 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ------ So I am at a loss here. :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]