here is the problem.

I have an intel JN440BX motherboard. It has Crystal audio onboard sound. Can not get it to work. I dual boot into win2k and it works fine there. I am pretty sure I should be using the i810_audio driver.
I type in modprobe i810_audio and here is what I get:

/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: init_module: No such device
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o.gz:

So I went to my syslog and found this.

Aug 10 11:31:36 jamey modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0
Aug 10 11:31:36 jamey modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate
module sound-service-0-0

Any ideas would be greatly appriciated.

Try (you may need to be root) :

$ lspci

to see weather your sound device is actually "there" at all, and does /dev/dsp or /dev/mixer, etc... exist?

-Taiyo

Its not there:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03 )
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 05)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:14.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139 C+ (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (r ev T

Hmm the onboard sound is enabled in the bios and it works in win2k. is there anyway to make it see it?

check you /usr/lib/modules adn the proper subdirectories to see if the module is built. if its not then you need to enable/build it in your kernel.

I install Alsa and still nothing