hello,
I just installed debian squeeze and now my sound card won't work. I did some troubleshooting by logging into root, trying the volume that way, played with the alsa mixer, did the good old lspci-v command, which the result for my audio card secion was "intel 3400 series chipset" which means debian isn't recognizing my sound card, which is all good except for the fact it didn't list what my sound card actually was, so I did a little digging and found out what it was from HP and the sound card is an altec lansing. I found a site that listed what sound cards are supported by the alsa mixer and altec wasn't included. I am kinda hitting a wall on how to get this to work short of buying a new sound card. And if Anyone jumps on me for not posting this in the correct area, sorry in advance and yes I have looked at other threads and have googled the problem extensively. Anyone got any ideas on how I should proceed?

Posting the output from the commands you ran and any links to to the site that said your card wasn't supported might help. Have you tried Open Sound System(OSS4)?

Trouble shooting ALSA on Debian
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...n-debian-3018/

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1425
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
Memory at d4400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel


that was what I got when I did lspci under root and the site I did to look up if alsa supported the altec lansing was http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main

---------- Post added 05-30-12 at 12:31 AM ----------

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1425
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
Memory at d4400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel


that was what I got when I did lspci under root and the site I did to look up if alsa supported the altec lansing was http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main

May I ask, what makes you think that the card reported by lspci is not what it's supposed to be, but another model (the altec lansing one)?

Anyway, according to a site I found in Spanish, the solution for the model reported by lspci (the Intel 5 Series/3400 Series) is to compile and install the alsa-driver 1.0.24 package (Squeeze has version 1.0.23, at the moment), which you can download from the alsa project site. According to this link, after installing it (with "./configure", "make" and "make install"), you must execute the following command from inside the same directory containing the driver:

Then:

It's supposed to work.

These are the steps provided in the guide, but if you're interested, here's the source (in Spanish).

EDIT: I was not aware that alsa-driver was at version 1.0.25 (I couldn't enter the alsa-project site some hours ago), you can download that, instead of 1.0.24.

Google suggests that card should work The link you provided doesn't work for me. I can ping alsa-project.org but can't go there with Iceweasel.

Do you have firmware-linux and firmware-linux-free installed, not sure they will help but won't hurt.

hey odiseo, what was the site you found? and chevy, how do I make sure that firmware is installed? and if it isn't, can i just do an apt-get on it? or do I have to find it?

also, on the alsa-project.org site, it shows they have alsa 1.0.25 out. or atleast that what it appears to be. maybe I should just download that one. and give it shot.

Yes, use alsa-driver-1.0.25.
The site I took the information from is this: http://www.esdebian.org/wiki/intel-c...n-audio-rev-05 (it's in Spanish)

Regards.

"Altec Lansing" is a speaker system, not a sound chip. The sound chip is what lspci says it is.

It's that easy.

hey caravel, you just humbled me by your knowlege. thank you. I'm going to try that firmware install once I get off work and also check out that site that odiseo posted. is there an apt get command for the alsamixer update? I think mine is on 1.0.23 or .24 and on alsa-project.org, it was showing .25 If none of this works, what else would you guys do? I haven't tried the OSS4 yet though.

I think upgrading alsamixer to version 1.0.25 is not needed; the guide only mentions upgrading alsa-driver (in this case, it's not done with apt-get, but compiling the tarball from source). I haven't tried OSS4, but you could try it, in case upgrading alsa-driver doesn't work.

so this was the result of the apt-get



apt-get install firmware-linux firmware-linux-free
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package firmware-linux is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'firmware-linux' has no installation candidate
I'm going to head back to alsaproject and try to upgrade the driver.

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so this was the result of the apt-get



apt-get install firmware-linux firmware-linux-free
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package firmware-linux is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'firmware-linux' has no installation candidate
I'm going to head back to alsaproject and try to upgrade the driver.

currently downloading the alsa driver 1.0.25.tar.bz2 from http://alsa.cybermirror.org/driver/

I hope this works.

---------- Post added 05-30-12 at 10:30 PM ----------

currently downloading the alsa driver 1.0.25.tar.bz2 from http://alsa.cybermirror.org/driver/

I hope this works.