I installed Sarge for my first time ever. (I used a network install CD). Love Sarge and Gnome but my sound doesn't work. I picked the 2.6.8 kernel.
My system has a gigabyte mainboard with an nForce2 chipset. I've read that this implies the snd_intel8x0 alsa module but I can't make it work. The alsaconf program says it can't find any sound cards. This is a dual-boot machine and the sound works fine under Win XP. Under Gnome the volume control slider refuses to be set above zero sound. When I ran the sound preferences tool it was telling me to install the gnome-audio package to play sounds. I did and it stopped complaining about gnome-audio but there is still no sound. I also clicked "enable sound server startup" and "sounds for events" but no help. Any ideas, anybody? Here's my lsmod. Note I haven't changed my modules config from the defaults. I had to do a modprobe snd-intel8x0 on the command line to get it to load any snd modules at all. /etc# lsmod | grep snd snd_intel8x0 33068 0 snd_ac97_codec 59268 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm_oss 48168 0 snd_mixer_oss 16640 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 85384 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 23300 1 snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 11144 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm snd_mpu401_uart 7296 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_rawmidi 23204 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 7944 1 snd_rawmidi snd 50660 9 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore 9824 1 snd gameport 4736 2 snd_intel8x0,analog NOTE unrelated to sound: the X setup offered to use frame buffer which I accepted but then X didn't work until racked my brain and I ran dpkg-reconfigure and disabled frame buffer. So my first impression is that while the new installer is a huge leap forward, it still needs work. A non-computer-nerdy user would have found Sarge unusable having made that mistake. This sound thing would baffle them, too.
