Sound Problems... dont know what to do...

**chris-harry** · 09-05-2005

GRR!!! its the laptop (again!!!).. anyway... i dont know what else to do... i dont even know what sound card i have (oh the pain... tourcher... grr), well.. once again, i am on me laptop this laptop will never ever stop having problems... rar

can people help me with the sounnd??

i use debian, once again... dont know what kernel... and i dont get any sound (excluding the static)...

**moutaye** · 09-05-2005

hmmmm

two options:

whether your audio chip is not recognized (i don't believe it at all..) or your audio module is not loaded by the kernel during boot time

since you didn't provide much info i would suggest you to run :

#alsaconf

This should help you detect your audio chipset and configure it, assuming alsa is installed on your laptop

if not install it using apt-get

cheers

**Vergil83** · 09-05-2005

use

Code:

uname -a

to get your kernel number. If 2.4 you need to install the alsa kernel modules, if 2.6, then just alsa.

**vamshi_krishna** · 09-06-2005

do alsa conf..

Code:

alsaconf

then see what is the sound drive it shows add snd to it and so modprobe
mine it was au88xx
what I did is

Code:

modprobe snd-au88xx

then

Code:

alsaconf

again
this should do

**chris-harry** · 09-30-2005

um... alsaconf isnt comming up with anything...

**Vergil83** · 09-30-2005

Originally Posted by chris-harry

um... alsaconf isnt comming up with anything...

you need to install alsa-utils

**chris-harry** · 10-01-2005

i apt-get installed alsa-utils, and then tried alsaconf again... same thing as last time... nothing comming up...

**burnit** · 10-01-2005

I siggest to find the best configuration of your laptop on www.linux-laptop.net/.

Then recompile kernel sources, including your soundcard kernel module.
You can search any kernel how-to or see the recent topic http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-56702.html for using kernel-package

.

Then, installing alsa-base package everything should go well...

**Vergil83** · 10-01-2005

Originally Posted by chris-harry

i apt-get installed alsa-utils, and then tried alsaconf again... same thing as last time... nothing comming up...

what do you mean nothing comes up? Does it say command not found or......

**junkman4547** · 10-01-2005

First determine which kernel version you're running with

#uname -a

as Vergil suggested. If you're using 2.4 then you must install

alsa modules 2.4.25-1-i686
alsa-base
alsa-utils

then you can run.... alsa conf

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