markus uhlmann wrote:
hi.
i am having trouble getting the sound to work on a dell inspiron 5100
laptop. i am running debian 'sarge' and a 2.4.18 kernel. 'lspci' tells
me (amongst other things):
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0149
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 10
It's been my experience that when a device is an "Unknown device" to the
kernel, it ain't gonna work. You might think about upgrading your
kernel, or boot off a Knoppix CD to make sure that the sound system
works there before upgrading.
using a kernel with audio support, i get the following message at boot
time (from 'dmesg'):
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.21, 20:42:12 Apr 9 2003
Then again, this looks promising.
as relevant devices i got the following:
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Apr 9 22:30 /dev/dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 Apr 9 22:30 /dev/audio
however, when i try playing any soundfile (e.g.
'cat train.wav > /dev/audio' or 'play train.wav') as root or user
being part of the audio group, i get an error like:
/dev/audio: no such device
what's going wrong? could it have to do with shared interrupts? am i
missing something?
i should add that i have the same problem when using a kernel without
built-in sound and loading modules by hand. 'alsa' did not do any good
either.
What's the result of "lsmod"? Which modules did you load by hand? I
suspect you'll need one like "i810_audio".
--
Kent
