This topic wandered abit... lol...

As adz and I have been trying to find out, are the modules for you sound being loaded. Can you post the following command and result:

lsmod

It will list the loaded modules...

Module Size Used by Not tainted
soundcore 3844 0 (autoclean)
input 3392 0

You should have a module called cmi8738 or something like that. Have a look through the directory /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/sound/ (and any subdirectories) for files with the ".o" extension. There should be one corresponding to your sound card (I remember from your kernel config you compiled it so it should be there) and will be called something like your sound card's chipset (eg "cmi8738.o"). If you find something like that then type "modprobe cmi8738" (notice the ".o" extension is not used with this function) from any directory. Once you have done that, make sure all your playback volume levels are set high and try to play a piece of music. If that works add the line "cmi8738" to your /etc/modules file and it will be loaded automatically on start up.

PS: the soundcore module is required aswell but you need a card-specific one also to get sound working fully.

If you find the sound a little poor quality, you can also download and install the alsa drivers from www.alsa-project.org.

I loaded cmpci.o and ac97_codec.o.
I run sndconfig, it found the audio chip but it tells me "An error occured while writing the config file".
and, another question: when I launch xmms it needs a plugin to use audio. Which plugin I need to select?

I've never used sndconfig. Once you load those modules you should be OK and not need to do any more config apart from volume levels and the like. However, if you know the location of where it's trying to save the config file to you may be able to change the permissions or run the program as root.

As for xmms, it shouldn't need a plugin for audio. It's an audio program. I've heard some distros make it so that by default xmms can't play back mp3's but you're using debian and I've never seen anything like that under debian. Maybe unstable is different (I run testing). All I can suggest is have alook through the packages that start with "xmms" and see if there's an mp3 plugin (I assume you're playing mp3's?). To do this type: dpkg -l xmms* and see what comes up.

incredible!!!! now everything works!!!

I restarted my linux box and the audio didn't work yet. Then I did chmod 666 /dev/dsp, I reloaded cmpci and ac97_codec modules and everything now work!! I saw that soundcore module now use cmpci

cmpci 25904 1
ac97_codec 13428 0 (unused)
soundcore 3844 2 (autoclean) [cmpci]
input 3392 0

Now I inserted ac97_codec and cmpci modules in /etc/modules


Many tnx to all

Now I know that when I'll have some problems, here there are a lot of debian's genius

Bye

yuuuhuuuu

another problem

I would see cpu temperature so I've aptgetted lm_sensors

But when I launch "sensors-detect" (as root, of course) this is the message:

heelp

Bye

It would be a good idea to start a new thread. You can post the link to it here and I'll go there. But if you want more help then it's a good thing.