Alsa problem(yes, another one)

[tranin]

I have been looking through some of the other forum posts, and there are quite a few on alsa, but I haven't found anything that has helped me so far, apart from that my kernel might be too old, but that is part of my question.
This is what I'm using for a kernel.

linuxbox:~# uname -r
2.4.27-2-386

I have run

apt-get install alsa

This installed both alsa-base and alsa-uitls. I then tried to run alsaconf, and it just comes back with

No supported PnP or PCI card found. 
Would you like to probe legacy ISA sound cards/chips?

Now, I have a PCI soundcard, and as far as I can tell, debian see's it.

linuxbox:~# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82810E DC-133 GMCH [Graphics Memory Controller Hub] (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82810E DC-133 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801AA IDE (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA USB (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801AA SMBus (rev 02)
0000:01:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 09)
0000:01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10)

So it sees the ES1371 as being there, but alsaconf won't detect it.

I have read that alsa is built into a 2.6.something kernel, and that it should just work if you run that. I'm not sure if I want to upgrade. I try to work most things out, but as far as the kernel, I don't know the benefits of the 2.6.x flavors vs. the 2.4.x flavors. Would you suggest upgrading to a 2.6 kernel? Do you think this would have a good chance of resolving the above issue?

[Vergil83]

if you are using 2.4, then you also need to

apt-get install alsa-modules-2.4.27-2-386

[TheBigPhish]

Ahhh, i see you have the dreaded ES1371 soundchip in your system. I have been fighting with that chip in my laptop (gateway solo 2150) for over a year in three different distros. Even to get it to work in Windows XP requires a hodgepodge of Win95 & 98 drivers to be loaded and then set in a particular way, just to get it to work. I don't want to be a naysayer, but that chip and linux is just a plain awful combination. My best luck was slackware 10.1 and OSS (no alsa whatsoever).

[tranin]

Man oh man Vergil, you are on top of the game, aren't you.

To be honest, I thought I did this earlier, but I was actually using aptitude instead of apt-get, and I think I hit 'u' and it did the little update download, and I just thought it downloaded the package, but I did the apt-get, and then it worked beautifully!!

Thanks again!!

[gsuter]

I have been using Xandros ( various Flavors ) and after V3 it seems to be quite happy to talk to the sound card in this piece of Junk . After install it seems to work fine however the keyboard volume control buttons fail to inspire Linux to do anything except ignore them.
At present i am trying to get Ubuntu 6.10 to work but without any success. time to kill this distro off and go back to Xandros. ( insert Lunatic comment here )

Hey.. i like it!!!