Unfortunately, I have been unable to get the ALSA sound working either in an IBM thinkpad, or on a desktop system with a standard soundblaster. I have installed all of the relevant alsa packages, but the alsaconfig utility doesnt detect the card in either case (very bad sign), nor does it accept any of my configurations for setting the sound card manually. A typical error is as follows:
Loading driver: Starting sound driver: (cs4232) 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. Note that sound was configured perfectly first time on both machines on Redhat 6.2. These are both production machines, so if I am unable to get this problem resolved today or tomorrow, I will have to abandon Debian. Any help is most appreciated. Thanks, Chris Fonnesbeck
