hi,

i got a few problems with my Debian Sarge...

for one.. i am still on the old 2.4 kernel (wile i just installed it)

how can i upgrade that? is it possable trough apt-get (something like fc4)

second.. my sound cards are not accepted my debian... i got alsa installed (well alsa-base..) and i am in the sound group...

i tried to lookup my sound card trough the info panel...and also other programs are telling me that i do not have any sound card plugged in..

i tried 2 sound cards.. both worked on FC4 without anything tuching it..

well i do not know the name of both of my sound cards... One sound card is in bound (in my Asus motherboard) a VIA something...
Second is a Creative Audigy LS

does anyone know where to look for?

(go easy on me.. i'm just a newb to linux..)

regards,
Fatum

try running alsaconf.

this is my output:

because alsaconf can't find anycards, (wile 2 are in it..)

modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: (none loaded).
Building card database...
modinfo: snd-opl3sa2: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd-cs4236: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd-cs4232: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd-cs4231: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd-es18xx: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd-es1688: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd-sb16: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd-sb8: no module by that name found

Ok problem solved!

i found out that my kernel 2.4 didn't support my sound card.. so i upgraded my kernel. now it's working with alsa

(my kernel was finaly able to find the soundcard, the other one didn't find it)

I had the same problem yesterday and I discovered that alsaconf needs the sound driver to be as module : if they are linked to the kernel, modinfo used in alsaconf fails..