Debian: Sound Issues

[Mezmiro]

I decided to install Debian 3.1 on my computer about 3 days ago. Most things are running fine except screen resolution and sound. The screen resolution isn't such a big deal to me, but my top priority is sound! I can't live without music I'm using a Creative Labs SB Live! card right now, using the emu10k1 driver (which should be compatible).

So, I did some digging and found out I need alsamixer, or something like it. So I used the following command in the terminal..

apt-get install alsa-modules-2.4-386

and the output was thus:

Setting up alsa-modules-2.4.27-3-386 (1.0.8+2sarge1) ...
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-3-386/updates/alsa/snd-pdaudiocf.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-3-386/updates/alsa/snd-vx-cs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-3-386/updates/alsa/snd-vxp440.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-3-386/updates/alsa/snd-vxpocket.o
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: (none loaded).
Loading ALSA sound driver modules: (none to reload).

Did I get the wrong version of alsamixer? Or was it something else?

More Info
cat /proc/modules

soundcore               3268   0 (autoclean)
apm                     8428   1 (autoclean)
input                   3040   0 (autoclean)
isofs                  23188   0 (autoclean)
af_packet              11080   1 (autoclean)
printer                 6912   0 (unused)
i810_rng                2368   0 (unused)
ehci-hcd               14764   0 (unused)
usb-uhci               19504   0 (unused)
usbcore                52268   1 [printer ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
ide-scsi                8272   0
scsi_mod               86020   1 [ide-scsi]
e100                   42868   1
ide-cd                 27040   0
cdrom                  26212   0 [ide-cd]
rtc                     5768   0 (autoclean)
ext3                   65388   1 (autoclean)
jbd                    34628   1 (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect               288   0 (autoclean) (unused)
piix                    7784   1 (autoclean)
ide-disk               12416   2 (autoclean)
ide-core               91800   2 (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-cd ide-detect piix ide-disk]
unix                   12816 242 (autoclean)

Someone said my soundcore exists, but I don't have any sound modules loaded, and I don't know how to get / install them if they're not there..

ls -L -l /dev/dsp*

crw-rw----  1 root audio 14,  3 2005-02-25 22:39 /dev/dsp
crw-rw----  1 root audio 14, 19 2005-02-25 22:39 /dev/dsp1
crw-rw----  1 root audio 14, 35 2005-02-25 22:39 /dev/dsp2
crw-rw----  1 root audio 14, 51 2005-02-25 22:39 /dev/dsp3

[iwanabeguru]

do an apt-get install alsa-base alsa-utils
and use alsaconf to configure alsa for your soundcard

and why are you using 2.4 kernel?maybe try a 2.6 kernel
use "apt-cache search" to find packages

[Mezmiro]

Thank you!!!!! That worked! I'm loving linux even more. The next thing on my to-do list is how to increase my screen resolution...apparently I can only go up to 800x600 with this driver, which is a bit inadequate.

Thanks again!