I'm trying to install the ALSA drivers on my sony fx210 laptop. I have installed alsa-base alsa-utils alsaconfig from testing. When i run alsaconf i get the following error:
modprobe: Can't locate module snd cat: /proc/asound/version: No such file or directory alsaconf continues and i select my sound card (intel 815em) from the list. At the end of the config program, it tries to open the alsa mixer i get another error similar to the first: Loading driver: Starting ALSA sound driver (version none):modprobe: Can't locate module snd failed. Setting the PCM volume to 100% and the Master output volume to 50% The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system. Could not initialize the mixer, the card was probably not detected correctly. So i gather that i'm missing the snd.o driver. Is this the alsa driver? The testing packages recommend a package called "alsadriver" but it says that it is not available. Do i need this package? Am i missing a module for my kernel? I have the sound, soundlow, and soundcore modules loaded. Has anyone had any success with alsa and the intel 815em chipset? Any ideas?
