Sound and Video problems
 

Today I installed Debian Sarge, which I downloaded today. Everything has gone great, except these two problems. Debian even recognized my touchpad mouse, and scroll wheel right after install, which was a huge surprise. I have a gateway 4520GZ laptop.


Edit - I fixed the resolution problem, I only need help with sound now.

Second - Sound is not working. sndconfig tells me I have generic alsa i810. I even put myself in the group 'audio'. Nothing.
Also - Now when I try to do sndconfig, as root, it says "An error occured while writing the config file."

Any help appreciated. I hope I gave you all the info that you need to help me.

AFAIK sndconfig works OK with OSS and kernel 2.4.x, but not that well with Alsa and kernel 2.6.x. So if you've got 2.6.x kernel, you should probably install Alsa (apt-get install alsa-base) and run (as root) alsaconf and alsamixer.

I have kernal 2.6, and did run alsaconf, but alsamixer won't run for me.

Okay let's try this question. How do I turn off external amplifier? I've looked around, and this seems to be my problem. I can't open alsamixer though....