Hello,

I’m attempting to run Debian 3.0 on my PC. All of the hardware components are listed as supported. The only items I’m having trouble with are the sound card and the modem, neither of which seem to work. Both work fine in RH 8.0 and QNX, both of which are irunning on the same system. When I launch KDE from the Debian login screen, I get the following message:

“Sound server information message
Error while inializing the sound driver
Device /dev/dsp can’t be opened. No such device.
The sound server will continue using the null input device.”

When I check the KDE Control Center PCI Information section both the modem (US Robotics 5610) and sound card (Sis PCI Audio Accelerator), are listed.

Both are using IRQ 5, which isn’t listed amongst the IRQs in the KDE Control Center IRQ Information section, which to me indicates a conflict. If there was an IRQ conflict, I wouldn't be able to use either sound card or modem in Red Hat and QNX. All attempts to reconfigure the modem have been unsuccessful, as the system doesn't seem to find that network device.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

It's not setup yet.

Have you tried redhats sndconfig? that worked for me.

Show us the output of lspci -v.

Hi adz, Here it is:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 630 Host (rev 30)

Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32

Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

Capabilities: [c0] AGP version 2.0



00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0) (prog-if 80 [Master])

Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0a40

Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 128

I/O ports at 4000



00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513

Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0



00:01.1 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 84)

Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0a40

Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11

I/O ports at dc00

Memory at dd102000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2



00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])

Subsystem: Unknown device 0039:7001

Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3

Memory at dd103000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)



00:01.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])

Subsystem: Unknown device 0039:7000

Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3

Memory at dd100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)



00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02)

Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0a40

Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5

I/O ports at d000

Memory at dd101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2



00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])

Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0

I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff

Memory behind bridge: dd000000-dd0fffff

Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-d7ffffff



00:09.0 Serial controller: US Robotics/3Com 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550])

Subsystem: US Robotics/3Com USR 56k Internal FAX Modem (Model 2977)

Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5

I/O ports at e000

Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2



01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS630 GUI Accelerator+3D (rev 21) (prog-if 00 [VGA])

Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0a40

Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel

BIST result: 00

Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)

Memory at dd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

I/O ports at c000

Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1

Capabilities: [50] AGP version 2.0



Thanks.

Try as root adduser user_name audio to add yourself to the audio group you will have to logout and back in for the changes to take effect. To check which groups you belong too groups or id in a console window. Other groups you may want to belong to are video, cdrom, src.

Thanks for the suggestion. I have added myself to the groups you suggested. Unfortunately, I'm still getting that same error message mentioned above.

There must be some other permission problem then what is the output of ls -l /dev/dsp here is what it look like on my machine.
Also did you install sndconfig and run it as suggested above?

My ls -l /dev/dsp looks just like yours. When I run sndconfig, I get a message saying that I seem to be running a kernel with modular sound disabled "(soundcore.o was not found in the module search path)." It looks like I've got some kernel configuring to do. I'll be back to let you know how I make out. Thanks everybody. Wish me luck.