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1. Check that the motherboard sound is turned on in your BIOS
2. Ensure that that particular motherboard is supported by Linux / ALSA.
3. Get hold of the most recent ALSA version you can find.
I knw my sound is supported because it works in FC4 fine, I just downloaded latest v. of alsa, but with debian anything related to my nForce4 chipset doesnt seem to be native, like my ethernet card isnt detected in the install, but works when debian is installed. Anyway, anyone got any ideas?
When I use those drivers from nvidia, it tries to use the kernel sources then outputs the error:
If you are using a Linux 2.6 kernel, please make sure
you have configured kernel sources matching your kernel
installed on your system. If you specified a separate
output directory using either the "KBUILD_OUTPUT" or
the "O" KBUILD parameter, make sure to specify this
directory with the SYSOUT environment variable or with
the appropriate nvidia-installer command line option.
You may want to upgrade to "testing" if you haven't already.
Try installing
kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8
kernel-headers-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8
Now for a symlink. In a root terminal, type
ln -s /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 /usr/src/linux
You may or may not need these packages to compile:
binutils
e2fsprogs
tune2fs
gcc (GNU C Compiler)
make (GNU make)
module-init-tools
depmod
procps
ps
util-linux
libc6-dev
kernel-package
modconf
Qt run-time libraries for nvMixer
I just did upgrade to testing, and going to try again. I found out using FC4 that the module for my snd card is snd_intel8x0 or something like that, and found my snd card used the AC'97 chipset.
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