On_board sound card it is not recognized by Debian

marcoafm · 03-22-2007, 08:58 AM

Hi Guys!

I'm having some trouble in my pc. That's the scenario:

I have a Asus K8V-VM mobo and the audio on-bord is a Realtek AC'97;
I'm using Debian Sarge - kernel 2.6.8-2-386.

I've installed the Debian without problem but after I've installed the sound driver from the modo cd drivers the gnome does not entered anymore. It sends a message saying the libasound.so.2 file was not found.

After that I've checked by lspci that my sound device is not detected - just there is no any multimedia audio device in the list, just some unknowled devices.(that's why I don't post the lspci list here)

So I ask you: Who can I do? How can I make the linux recognize this device ?

Any sugestion will help.

Tks a lot.

camorri · 03-22-2007, 10:28 AM

Does the file show up if you do a 'locate libsound.so.2' ( with out the quotes ) ? If the system says your DB is over 8 days old, run as root 'updatedb' and then re-run the command.

Here is a link to get the latest AC97 driver.

http://www.dirfile.com/realtek_ac_97..._for_linux.htm

Hope this helps.

nx5000 · 03-22-2007, 11:32 AM

Isn't it integrated in newer kernels?

Strange web site... :?

deyash · 03-22-2007, 11:52 AM

hey!!
i have a similar problem but not exactly the same....actually my PC is based on asus P5RD2-VM mother board with realtek 8168/8100 lan card.....
recently i have installed fedora core 6 ....the prob is that it is not recognising the ethernet card.....

what should i do......plz suggest.........

deyash · 03-22-2007, 11:53 AM

hey!!
i have a similar problem but not exactly the same....actually my PC is based on asus P5RD2-VM mother board with realtek 8168/8100 lan card.....
recently i have installed fedora core 6 ....the prob is that it is not recognising the ethernet card.....

what should i do......plz suggest.........

jay73 · 03-22-2007, 12:18 PM

Deyash,

you should have started your own thread.

Anyway, have a look at this, it should help. Sorry, I didn't feel like writing it all down again.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=538845

jay73 · 03-22-2007, 12:23 PM

marcoafm,

why should you want to install sarge at this time when etch is such a great OS? I have some pretty new hardware and sarge gave me nothing but issues (NIC, sound, video driver, etc etc); now etch recognizes each and every bit of hardware out of the box (with the exception of the video driver but that proved amazingly simple to install).