No Sound

[MonkeySniper>]

Ok i installed alsa, configured it which seemed to not work. I got in contact with a friend here we both tried to work it out but nothing. He shh my computer got in and tried many thing that i dont know for sure on . And still nothing no sound error keeps popping up sayig there no sound card. I have a onboard sound." [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such device
alsa-init: no soundcards found " . And such he was no successful on fixing it so i dont know what to try or do here any idea's ?

[derek375]

install alsa-base then run alsaconf.That worked for me.

[junkman4547]

First, to find out which kernel you're using, try

$uname _r

if it's 2.4, then you'll need to install

alsa-modules
alsa-base
alsa-utils

if it's 2.6, then you only need the last two. After installation run

"alsaconf" which would detect your audio device.

hope this helps.

[MonkeySniper>]

Ok well i was about to install both alsa-base and alsa-utils. alsa-modules gave me this error

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package alsa-modules is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
alsa-base
E: Package alsa-modules has no installation candidate

So i dont know whats up with it and the uname_r did not work too. I then retried alsa conf and still nothing no sound. I know its not my hardware cuz windows does fine withit i listen to music in there. All i can tell you is that i have a shuttle atx motherboard socket a and it has onboard sound. I dont know why its doing it in debian i had FC3 before and i got sound in there fine had music playing too lol. But debian for some reason seems to not want to work for me.

[junkman4547]

My apology.....it should be

$uname -r

that should tell you which debian kernel you've installed.
The informations I gave you are from Debian book itself, I can not understand
why it won't work for you.

[patopatasfrias]

I had the same problem and got the same result, then I tried to be more explicit about the alsa module that I wanted (in my case: apt-get install alsa-module-2.4.27-2-386). Which seemed to work.

Now I've got the problem that I can use Rythymbox but when I want to play a music CD in the CD player, no sound is forthcoming nor any error message... any ideas?

Cheers
Matt

[vidd]

Now I've got the problem that I can use Rythymbox but when I want to play a music CD in the CD player, no sound is forthcoming nor any error message... any ideas?t

check to make sure that CD Capture is not muted:
inside the gui, double-click the speaker icon, click <Capture> and adjust the volume controls for <cd>

[junkman4547]

I had the same problem and got the same result, then I tried to be more explicit about the alsa module that I wanted (in my case: apt-get install alsa-module-2.4.27-2-386). Which seemed to work.

Now I've got the problem that I can use Rythymbox but when I want to play a music CD in the CD player, no sound is forthcoming nor any error message... any ideas?

Cheers
Matt

One thing you might want to check is that you enable the digital extraction for your CD
drive.