My Debian is almost perfect, but...
 

Hello boys and girls...

My Debian Sarge 3.1 with kernel 2.4.27-2-386 is almost perfect. I'm having troubles only with my sound card (VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)). I've tried to configure it but I couldn't do it works. I installed alsa and up the modules but When I run alsaconf it doesn't found my card, alsamix did not work.

What I have to do to solve this inconvenience???

Thanks

Exact same sound card and audio controller, but it works perfect for me in Knoppix.
Just try sndconf or alsaconf and configure it.

There is a brazilian distro based in knoppix (kurumin) that I installed in machine last month that worked good too, I tried install sndconf via APT but I couldn't get it, I don't know why and the alsaconf didn't found my sound card.

it may be that you don't have all your sources set up correctly, what's your /etc/apt/sources.list say?

Install 'modconf' and then launch it:

#modconf

go to the sound section make your pick

Did you install alsa-modules-XXXXX (where XXXXX is your kernel version)

edit: I reread your first post and it seems like you did, oops ;)

This is my sources.list:

#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.5-rc1/ ./
#deb http://cdd.debian-br.org/debian-br-cdd/ sarge main
#deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian sarge main
#deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian sarge non-free
#deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian sarge contrib
#deb http://linorg.usp.br/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb http://linorg.usp.br/debian testing main contrib non-free

and macondo I ran modconf, up the modules but unfortunately it didn't
work.

Do you know a mirror to install the sndconf???

Thanks

you may try uncommenting the sarge sources, and commenting out the stable one. It may be that sndconf is in 'contrib' or in 'non-free'. I suppose you could just add both of those words after the 'main' entry, so it'd look like this

Hi microsoft/linux I

I've done what you said, but it didn't found the package yet.

Do you have another mirror that I can put in my sources.list to install the sndconf??

Thank you very much

Is it an onboard chip or an expansion card?
BIOS settings are OK, it is activated?

Hi coyopil... how are you???

well, I have an onboard chip. I can take a look in my BIOS but I have
Windows XP in my machine and the sound work well in it, so I think that this is not the problem...

Can you find out which alsa module you need for this card?

judging from here, sndconf was only availabe in the old stable version(woody). If you're comfortable compiling from source, you might google for the source package

you have installed alsa-modules and all other things realted to alsa?

I could install the sndconfig package, it found my card but called it "unknow" and didn't installed it.

I will take a look at google again for the four time if I have luck I tell you.

Thanks very much