Dear all Thanks for earlier comments on this. I installed Alsa and tried a few things. Sound still not working. Below are some messages from my machine (a Thinkpad A31p). Any cluebits re alsa installation or the error messages from alsaconf would be much appreciated.
* The sound card is an Intel Corp. I82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio (as detected by Kudzu). * Installing alsa: seemed to require (a) a 2.4.16 kernel image, and (b) that I add 'initrd=/initrd' to my lilo.conf. Can't it work with the 2.4.18 kernel already installed? * Running alsaconf: debian:~# alsaconf Initializing ... please wait ... modprobe: Can't locate module snd cat: /proc/asound/version: No such file or directory expr: syntax error <gui_section> chose 0x31 Intel_i810/810E, i820, i830, i840, MX440 Max. playback frame size in kB (4-128) ...? Max. capture frame size in kB (4-128) ...? Max. microphone frame size in kB (4-128) ...? </gui_section> Loading driver: No ALSA driver installed 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% No ALSA driver installed Could not initialize the mixer, the card was probably not detected correctly. debian:~# - module snd: I don't have this (don't remember it being listed) but I do have the following sound related modules: Module Size Used by Not tainted sound 52876 0 (unused) i810_audio 21248 0 (unused) ac97_codec 9568 0 [i810_audio] soundcore 3236 4 [sound i810_audio] If I have to add extra modules to the kernel, do I have to reinstall or can I do it piecemeal (e.g. with insmod)? - /proc/asound/version: Don't know what asound is or why it should be there. - frame sizes: can anyone provide a good default for these? - No ALSA driver installed: should an alsa driver be set up before running alsaconf, and if so how? Best Ivan
