debian sarge 2.6 kernel
alc60/55 realtek ac'97

trying to get sound working with the above stuff..
I ran alsaconf, but i got no result, so then dmesg and got this -

Yamaha OPL3-SA soundcard not found or device busy
unable to find a free IRQ
unable to find a free IRQ
unable to find a free IRQ
ESS AudioDrive ES1688 soundcard not found or device busy
unable to find a free IRQ
unable to find a free IRQ
unable to find a free IRQ
ESS AudioDrive ES1688 soundcard not found or device busy
Sound Blaster 16 soundcard not found or device busy
In case, if you have AWE card, try snd-sbawe module
sb: can't grab irq 65535
sb: can't grab irq 65535
sb: can't grab irq 65535
Sound Blaster soundcard not found or device busy
P-Fw-DROP-NEWnoSYN-IN: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=80.76.39.174 DST=85.210.21.8 LEN=44 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=53 ID=0 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=30013 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x 00 ACK SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B4)


also tried modprobe snd8x0-intel but said fatal module not found.
im kinda lost now, i tried all i know how, can someone help please?

I sense much confusion in the force with you

OPL3-SA
ES1668
i8x0
SB16

are all different modules for different soundcards.

will spit out what the card is actually reporting.

Sarge should have set up up automatically....maybe worth checking the mixer is unmuted and the speakers are plugged in/turned up.

In the event that you have something nasty from Gateway or Dell then maybe the easiest solution would be to install a cheap and massively superior Creative SoundBlaster on a spare PCI.

debian:/home/fly# lspci | grep audio
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 008a (rev a1)


speaker-test 1.0.8
Playback device is plughw:0,0
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Sine wave rate is 440.0000Hz
Playback open error: No such file or directory


my audio chip thing is on board my ga-7n400s-l so no its not dell its gigabyte, dont suppose it makes a differance huh?

you are not alone with this trouble.

look here

You have an NForce chipset that ofetn runs an i810 sound module but really should run the nvidia nforce driver available FOC from nvidia

There is also the OS forcedeth module that works just as well.

So either NForce OR i810 OR Forcedeth

read the instructions and remember to install outside of of X and as root. You will need to reinstall it if you ever upgrade your kernel...don't worry, it is very easy so long as you read their short instructions.

thanks..im getting someware now but,

No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; this means
that the installer will need to compile a new kernel interface.
ERROR: Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel.
Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your
kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the
'kernel-source' rpm installed. If you know the correct kernel source
files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the
'--kernel-source-path' commandline option.
ERROR: Installation of the network driver has failed. Please see the file
'/var/log/nvidia-nforce-installer.log' for details. You may find
suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on
the Linux driver download page at www dot nvidia dot com

i have the kernel source and tree installed according to synaptic, its just the commands im pickeled with now, im not sure of the exact file i should be pointing the installer to, any ideas?

look closely at the output frommine is and then apt-get the kernel headers with the suffix installation script for nvidia graphics drivers is which just goes after the .run bit of the NVIDIA command (with a space).

To be honest I wouldn't have though that was needed for NFORCE drivers so just stick the headers in first

glad it's starting to progress

ok and done...

just got to update the audio config now, thanks

added the stuff to modules like the other guys post, still not working?

still no sound?

check that the NFORCE module is actually being loaded with It should list out with nforce and then some digits (which aren't important here).

If that checks out then fire up kmix or alsamixer or pickyopurfavmixer and make sure that the levels aren't at zero and that mutes aren't on.

Even though you have a shiny new NFORCE module you still need either ALSA or OSS to translate all that lovely binary output into actual sound. Debian's default is alsa so it should be installed.

whoo hoo

i got sound now..thanks for all yer help!