No sound with Debian Etch Alsa snd-intel8x0

[rbwerst]

I have searched this forum and many others, trying everything that I found in vain for a solution to this problem -- and it is present on both my laptop and desktop computers. Alsa is installed, and I have run alsaconf. The on-board sound card is detected, the card in enabled in the bios, none of the output controls are muted, I am enabled as user, and the results are the same when logged in as root.

Any suggestions?

I do have a spare soundblaster card that I could try but as yet I have not because people seem to get these things working...with the problem being something fairly simple.

I did find one mention of a toggle between digital and analog output but I haven't found any way to try that on either machine.

The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A35, and the Desktop is a Compaq D510S...

I am not exactly new to Linux, Fedora 6 for the last year or so almost exclusively, but Debian is new to me and both of these computers are new.

Thanks for any advice at all...

Richard

[petros]

Have you tried the esd (enlightment sound daemon) ?
apt-get install esound
go to desktop/preferences/multimedia systems selector and select esd!

[rbwerst]

esound was installed, and in my case the solution was to install an old sound blaster sound card. I think that there may have been something wrong with the internal one in the Compaq, at any rate the new sound card works fine.

Should have posted this earlier, been busy and didn't think about it.

RBW