No Sound in Debian Linux 3.1

[commanderx]

I am a newbie in Linux. I had a set of CDs of Debian 3.1 r2 and I recently have installed it to my Intel D845 Chipset based PC. I dont get sound while am on debian. But there is no problem with sound while I am on my Windows XP SP2 installation. No other probs with my Debian. Please Help me. Let me enjoy music while am learning something in linux. Also I want help in accessing my hard disk partitions which are formatted to NTFS file system in Debian. Only the partition in which debian is installed is shown in debian. But the experience was different when I was using Kubuntu and Mandriva 2006 they showed me all partitions including windows partitions. How can make it happen in Debian 3.1 r2 ? Also my screen resolution is set to 800*600@86Hz. My monitor supports more then this. How can get a better resolution like 1024*768? While the installation, graphics was configured with Vesa. HELP HELP HELP

[coopstah13]

debian 3.1 aka Sarge is the old stable, etch is the most current version, 4.0, you will likely have much less hardware problems with the newer version of debian

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

I dont get sound while am on debian. But there is no problem with sound while I am on my Windows XP SP2 installation. No other probs with my Debian. Please Help me.

Execute this

alsamixer

Adjust sliders. You have to install necessary codecs for playing Proprietary formats.

Also I want help in accessing my hard disk partitions which are formatted to NTFS file system in Debian. Only the partition in which debian is installed is shown in debian. But the experience was different when I was using Kubuntu and Mandriva 2006 they showed me all partitions including windows partitions. How can make it happen in Debian 3.1 r2 ?
Adjust volume.

You have to mount NTFS partitions manually.
Execute this

su -
/sbin/fdisk -l

Post output here.

Also my screen resolution is set to 800*600@86Hz. My monitor supports more then this. How can get a better resolution like 1024*768? While the installation, graphics was configured with Vesa.

Have you tried to reconfigure GUI?
Execute this

su -
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

[commanderx]

I dont have the latest version of debian. Even if I have it, I am not sure if it will work on my 3 Year old Pc. I dont have broadband connection to download it. So i would like stick with the Debian version I have.

[IsaacKuo]

Debian 4.0 will work fine on a 3 year old PC. That's not much older than Debian 4.0 itself. Seriously, I have Debian 4.0 running on a 1990's vintage 120mhz Pentium. There's no problem.

As for getting higher than 800x600, I'm not familiar with getting dpkg-reconfigure to do everything I want, so I always configure X manually by editing xorg.conf. With older video hardware, I find that the culprit is usually a default color depth of 24--I cut it down to 16 to get higher resolutions. But your computer is only 3 years old, so that really won't be the problem. Most likely, the problem is that Debian 3.1 is very conservative by default; I think 800x600 is the highest resolution it will default to, regardless of your hardware.

Oh--Debian 3.1 doesn't use xorg, so instead of xorg.conf you'd be editing /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. The format of this file is the same as xorg.conf.