My Debian is almost perfect, but...

brazilian_user · 12-15-2005, 09:38 PM

Hello boys and girls...

My Debian Sarge 3.1 with kernel 2.4.27-2-386 is almost perfect. I'm having troubles only with my sound card (VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)). I've tried to configure it but I couldn't do it works. I installed alsa and up the modules but When I run alsaconf it doesn't found my card, alsamix did not work.

What I have to do to solve this inconvenience???

Thanks

gnukish · 12-15-2005, 09:42 PM

Exact same sound card and audio controller, but it works perfect for me in Knoppix.
Just try sndconf or alsaconf and configure it.

brazilian_user · 12-15-2005, 10:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gnukish

Exact same sound card and audio controller, but it works perfect for me in Knoppix.
Just try sndconf or alsaconf and configure it.

There is a brazilian distro based in knoppix (kurumin) that I installed in machine last month that worked good too, I tried install sndconf via APT but I couldn't get it, I don't know why and the alsaconf didn't found my sound card.

microsoft/linux · 12-15-2005, 10:11 PM

it may be that you don't have all your sources set up correctly, what's your /etc/apt/sources.list say?

macondo · 12-16-2005, 05:19 AM

Install 'modconf' and then launch it:

#modconf

go to the sound section make your pick

gunnix · 12-16-2005, 07:42 AM

Did you install alsa-modules-XXXXX (where XXXXX is your kernel version)

edit: I reread your first post and it seems like you did, oops

brazilian_user · 12-16-2005, 05:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by microsoft/linux

it may be that you don't have all your sources set up correctly, what's your /etc/apt/sources.list say?

This is my sources.list:

#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.5-rc1/ ./
#deb http://cdd.debian-br.org/debian-br-cdd/ sarge main
#deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian sarge main
#deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian sarge non-free
#deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian sarge contrib
#deb http://linorg.usp.br/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb http://linorg.usp.br/debian testing main contrib non-free

and macondo I ran modconf, up the modules but unfortunately it didn't
work.

Do you know a mirror to install the sndconf???

Thanks

microsoft/linux · 12-16-2005, 05:43 PM

you may try uncommenting the sarge sources, and commenting out the stable one. It may be that sndconf is in 'contrib' or in 'non-free'. I suppose you could just add both of those words after the 'main' entry, so it'd look like this

Code:

deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free

brazilian_user · 12-16-2005, 05:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by microsoft/linux

you may try uncommenting the sarge sources, and commenting out the stable one. It may be that sndconf is in 'contrib' or in 'non-free'. I suppose you could just add both of those words after the 'main' entry, so it'd look like this

Code:

deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free

Hi microsoft/linux I

I've done what you said, but it didn't found the package yet.

Do you have another mirror that I can put in my sources.list to install the sndconf??

Thank you very much

coyopil · 12-16-2005, 06:06 PM

Is it an onboard chip or an expansion card?
BIOS settings are OK, it is activated?

brazilian_user · 12-16-2005, 06:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by coyopil

Is it an onboard chip or an expansion card?
BIOS settings are OK, it is activated?

Hi coyopil... how are you???

well, I have an onboard chip. I can take a look in my BIOS but I have
Windows XP in my machine and the sound work well in it, so I think that this is not the problem...

coyopil · 12-16-2005, 06:44 PM

Can you find out which alsa module you need for this card?

microsoft/linux · 12-16-2005, 06:51 PM

judging from here, sndconf was only availabe in the old stable version(woody). If you're comfortable compiling from source, you might google for the source package

coyopil · 12-16-2005, 07:09 PM

you have installed alsa-modules and all other things realted to alsa?

brazilian_user · 12-16-2005, 07:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by microsoft/linux

judging from here, sndconf was only availabe in the old stable version(woody). If you're comfortable compiling from source, you might google for the source package

I could install the sndconfig package, it found my card but called it "unknow" and didn't installed it.

I will take a look at google again for the four time if I have luck I tell you.

Thanks very much