I recently ordered a bare-bones AMD system (athlon x2 4200, 1GB ram, onboard NVIDIA Geforce6, ethernet and sound), and I started setting up and configuring my Debian Etch system on it. I'm not a complete 'n00b' as they say, I've been using linux for almost a year but I've been relying a lot on google searches for my problems.

1.I've disabled gdm auto-start because sometimes I need to do things out of X, but when it gets to the last stage right before 'COMPUTER LOGIN:' it reads:

lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
(Hangs here for a minute or so)
eth'n': No IPv6 routers present
('n' is replaced by a number that constantly changes. Sometimes it is eth17 or eth19 and sometimes it is roeth21)

2. I can't seem to get sound working - I wish I could give more information but I really don't know. Help me out!

3. And lastly I've started playing around with Compiz-Fusion since this is a fairly fast computer. One issue I'm having is when I log in, emerald theme manager doesn't start. The gnome default themer takes over.
I've added 'emerald --replace' to my start up applications, but when I boot up i still have to 'Alt-F2 - emerald --replace' my way into it. Anybody else experience a similar problem?

If you are not using IPv6, disable it. There are a variety of ways of doing that. Here is a link on how to disable it.

http://www.ducea.com/2006/06/01/disa...fault-kernels/

I have a similar system, i have had it about 2 months. I installed Mandriva 2008, and everything worked out or the box. I'm not suggesting you give up on Debain, I would bet you can get everything working.

Sound, my system uses the Intel-HDA driver for the Nvidia sound hardware. Here is my audio hardware from the command 'lspci'

and the sound driver from /sbin/lsmod | grep snd

Look to see if you have any of the above loaded. If not, try to modprobe soundcore and snd_hda_intel . If they load, turn up the volume, open a mixer and make sure you are not muted.

I use KDE, not Gnome, so I can't help much with what is happening with Emerald. I have it loaded, and it works like a charm.

Hope this helps.

Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
this is the same sound card I have. When I type /sbin/lsmod | grep snd I get:

snd_hda_intel 23708 0
snd_hda_codec 184192 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss 48672 0
snd_mixer_oss 21888 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 89096 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 29192 1 snd_pcm
snd 65256 6 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 15392 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 15504 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm


When I modprobe'd soundcoire and snd_hda_intel I was returned no error messages. But when I try to open Volume Control I get:
No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found.

After reading other posts, it appears you may not have GStreamer plugins installed. Have you installed them?

I'm not quite sure which ones to get - synaptic returns a lot of different kinds, some of which I already have installed.

This worked flawlessly by the way.

The joy of Linux: For every graphical application, there's a text-based counterpart.

Don't worry about using gnome-alsa-mixer just yet. Pop over into a TTY, and run sudo alsaconf. After that's done, run alsamixer; the sound levels should be non-muted and fairly audible, but it's good to check, anyways.

As for installing Gstreamer plugins, install the following:

alsaconf doesn't detect any soundcard, and alsamixer doesn't start because I have no sound device initialized =(.

Hmm...if you run aptitude (or synaptic), which ALSA packages are installed?

pietruszewski reported the following alsa driver installed - snd_hda_intel 23708 0

When I do a search for alsa in synaptic I get:

Can anybody help me out?

There is something strange about this:

Nothing is using the sound driver, snd_hda_intel. Compare it to what I listed, and things should be using the driver. I have 4 things using the driver. ( my sound works, same sound hardware ).

I wished I could help more, but for now all I can suggest is to unload all the sound stuff, and then re-load it. Possibly we can have a look at the Alsa site, there is some documentation there on how to do PD.

I had a look at the ALSA Wiki. It seems there are different kenenl modules used for different chip sets.

My system has the Realtek ALC883 chip set. There are several others. Some use the snd_hda_intel module, and others use the AC'97 module.

I'm wondering if you have the correct module loaded. If you bring up alsamixer-gui on the top it shows the ACL 883 chip on mine. Can you take a look and see what is reported on your system, and post back? I'm not sure if there may be other ways of knowing what chip set you have.

It won't let me open alsamixer because supposedly I don't have a sound device.