I am a novice to Linux, and I have installed Debian Lenny on a compaq Presario AMD64 with an AC 97 sound card. I have no sound.
I have re-installed a couple of times and have played with the realtek tarball but with no joy.
I have also tried alsa conf and got nowhere, although I did get an error message telling me amixer could not start.
I have disabled the on - board sound in the bios and debian recognises that there is no sound card under this condition, so I must be close, but any ideas would be appreciated.
Also, sound works under windows.

Thanks for any help.
Tim.