Help me to detect sound card

[mlhazan]

hello every one,my sound card is not working.I just installed Debian 4 etch.I tried this command:
cat /proc/asound/cards
output:
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xf8400000 irq 82

I found a site that have some process to install driver but I have no idea.I don't want to mess up my system.Cause It really gave me a real hard time.Pls help me if u know how to do that.by the way the site address is:
Configuring and Troubleshooting Sound in Debian Linux

[coopstah13]

apt-get install libasound2 libasound2-doc alsa-base alsa-utils alsa-oss alsamixergui

install these things as specified in your link, then it should work, you will probably have to adjust the sound levels through alsamixergui, turn up PCM/Master Volume

[mlhazan]

Thanks to reply.Here is the output
debian:/home/mlhasan# apt-get install libasound2 libasound2-doc alsa-base alsa-utils alsa-oss alsamixergui
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
debian:/home/mlhasan#

[coopstah13]

you have to use apt-get as root

su

type this and then it'll prompt for your password, after, run the command above
and actually before you run my above posted command run

apt-get update

[mlhazan]

It was installed perfectly but still no sound is coming.Pls help me if know how to do it.

[mlhazan]

you have to use apt-get as root

su

type this and then it'll prompt for your password, after, run the command above
and actually before you run my above posted command run

apt-get update

debian:/home/mlhasan# apt-get update
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40] etch Release.gpg
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40] etch Release
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40] etch/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40] etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Get:1 Index of / etch Release.gpg [378B]
Hit Index of / etch Release
Get:2 Debian -- Security Information etch/updates Release.gpg [189B]
Hit Debian -- Security Information etch/updates Release
Ign Index of / etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign Debian -- Security Information etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign Index of / etch/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Ign Index of / etch/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign Debian -- Security Information etch/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign Debian -- Security Information etch/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign Index of / etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign Index of / etch/main Sources/DiffIndex
Hit Index of / etch/main Packages
Ign Debian -- Security Information etch/updates/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Hit Debian -- Security Information etch/updates/main Packages
Hit Index of / etch/non-free Packages
Hit Index of / etch/contrib Packages
Hit Index of / etch/main Packages
Hit Index of / etch/main Sources
Hit Debian -- Security Information etch/updates/contrib Packages
Hit Debian -- Security Information etch/updates/main Sources
Hit Debian -- Security Information etch/updates/contrib Sources
Fetched 2B in 0s (3B/s)
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
debian:/home/mlhasan# apt-get update
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40] etch Release.gpg
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40] etch Release
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40] etch/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40] etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Get:1 Debian -- Security Information etch/updates Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 Index of / etch Release.gpg [378B]
Hit Debian -- Security Information etch/updates Release
Hit Index of / etch Release
Ign Debian -- Security Information etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign Debian -- Security Information etch/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign Debian -- Security Information etch/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign Debian -- Security Information etch/updates/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Ign Index of / etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit Debian -- Security Information etch/updates/main Packages
Ign Index of / etch/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Ign Index of / etch/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Hit Debian -- Security Information etch/updates/contrib Packages
Hit Debian -- Security Information etch/updates/main Sources
Ign Index of / etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign Index of / etch/main Sources/DiffIndex
Hit Index of / etch/main Packages
Hit Debian -- Security Information etch/updates/contrib Sources
Hit Index of / etch/non-free Packages
Hit Index of / etch/contrib Packages
Hit Index of / etch/main Packages
Hit Index of / etch/main Sources
Fetched 2B in 0s (3B/s)
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
debian:/home/mlhasan#


I dont know whats going on.Can u help me pls

[coopstah13]

do you have a package manager installed like synaptic? If you have a package manager with a GUI (like synaptic) you can't run apt-get while it is open

[Tutku]

After installing alsa packages, at firt you have to use

alsaconfig

command, via this command your system will detect your sound card.

[Agent-X]

If the above hasn't worked yet, try something like this:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubu...0310-beep.html