I have an AMD sempron 3000 processor and installed debian(2.6) OS. It seems the sound system does not installed correctly during installation. While trying to configure sound it is showing the message "sound server------" the device will work without output-- something like that. These message is showing at the boot time also. The sound system is working well in windows XP.

My question is whether it is the problem of supporting driver for the sound device. Can I play sound on this system on linux?

1. who cares about the processor when you have a sound problem? how about telling us the name of your sound card?
2. why don't you post the error message as it appears on your screen? are we supposed to guess what "----" stands for?
3. there is no debian 2.6 . Or maybe there is. But 2.6 is the kernel version in your case and you probably use debian etch. *guess*

try and see if it detects your sound hw correctly.

argh, why do i even bother...

NO YOU CAN'T.
SWITCH BACK TO WINDOWS.

Check in the main menu for any type of mixer under multimedia, play around with muting things that don't apply to your current setup and make sure the Master & PCM are un-muted. Many such sound issues are just a matter of proper mixer settings.

It's possible that the module may not have been loaded for your sound card, but Junior Hackers is right. Quite a few sound cards are muted by default, you can try this command by typing it in the command line as root:

If this doesn't work then it may be a module problem, either not loading or not supported by the kernel.

I have tried the command alsaconf and it is not detecting the sound card

i am not able to copy files from my usb drive. The usb drive is not visible as an incon though the indicator of usb is blinking while putting it into the slot.

Hi...


Try this command...It will tell you whether you can play sound with your sound card and whether it is active...

cat filename.wav > /dev/dsp

After you give this command you should here atleast some sound in your speakers...

If you get anyerror message that unable to access device...then driver problem...

If it works...then it may be player problem...

May i know which flavour of linux you are using??

I am using debian linux having kernel 2.6

What is the result of the cat command that i told to execute on your pc??

I think the command worked. Because the shell prompt returned without any messages. But No sound heard

I got the motherboard driver cd, in which the Sound driver for linux is availale in tar format. But the following problems occured while installation.

debiN:/home/sunilrealtek-linux-audiopack-3.5.6# ./install

configure :error:this package requires a curses library.
make:*** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
make:*** No rule to make target 'install'.Stop
bzip2:can't open inputfile test.wav.bz2: No such file or directory (it is there)
cp:cannot stat 'test.wav': no such file or directory
remove folder..........
./install : line 89:alsaconf command not found
pls help

When I do a base installation on my desktop of Debian testing, I usually prefer not to select anything in tasksel for package groups and install basic system with CLI only. I was getting the same errors trying to load a user space driver called "martian_modem" after the "modem_dev.ko" module compiled and was loaded.
Eventually I wiped out the installation and selected "standard system" in tasksel which would install an extra 30 or 40 packages, which would also eliminate this issue when running certain commands as root.
I would never have this problem installing Debian testing on my laptop, and never had to select "standard system" with it, but it does not have a Lucent modem neither, it has a Conexant modem and the source compiles and works no problem with it. So....there's some package that would get installed when I select "standard system" that gave root full administrative access.
In the laptop, I also had similar issues where root had no privileges in an X environment. Adding export XAUTHORITY=/home/user_name/.Xauthority to /root/.bashrc would fix that issue. But the errors specifically had Xauthority in it, so you are probably missing a certain package like the problem I had with my desktop.

I also have a sound problem with Etch and amd64 netinst.alsaconf can not detect my sound card.lspci gives me :
00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)

I manually insert snd_hda_intel module with modprobe ,but lsmod | grep snd gives me :
snd_hda_intel 23708 0
snd_hda_codec 184192 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss 48672 0
snd_mixer_oss 21888 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 89096 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 29192 1 snd_pcm
snd 65256 6 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 15392 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 14864 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

And to increase wonder when I installed i386 on same hardware sound worked out of the box ! WTF !?

I got the debian etch dvd from a magazine. Which I installed earlier was an old type I think, though the kernal is 2.6. After installing the etch I got sound. But I would rather like to install such driver modules manually particularly via tar. I think it is the standardised way. But doing it like windows fashion gives nothing.
In my view the base installation should be the root terminal only.

I went on Gigabyte web site and found that if I have Linux I need to download drivers from chipset vendors or from third party so I went on Realtek web site and found linux driver but I can not install it on Debian.README said automatic install with ./install I did it and got an error message :

checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
# gcc -v gives me
gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)

For someone who has same problem.Solution was to do apt-get remove alsa and then download new alsa-driver and install it with ./configure make make install. That's it.