adrisayer did you download and install the alsa drivers? all the other files from the alsa source that you compile need those drivers (and other files that it installs) to run properly, ie: alsamixer. so id have to say give the alsa drivers from the site a try if you havent already.

I've downloaded the extra files you suggested. Try to compile the whole tutty and this is what I get from ./configure Sorry for this loooong list, but I am so fed-up at the moment that I could scream.


I know too little to know what is right or wrong above, but I reckon this is the only wrong bit.

Dunno about the yes and no's in the first part. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE say you help?

except for the kernel problem the configure did very well, that does help that you posted the configure output for me to see... if you could post the results of 'make' too that would be great (if its too long just start where it begins giving 'error:'). it looks like your really close though!

also as a side note... my hard drive crashed on me so now im using a live cd to get online... so i cant test things like before but it made me think... you could give mepis pro a try it autoconfigures everything amazingly well and is based on debain so its core is the same as ubuntu, so if you have some time download and try the mepis live cd to see if that will have your sound working.

Thanx for sticking with me. Here is the result of the make. As you can see the first errors start at the top. Sorry to hear about your HD. I have three in my system!!! Very wisely I learned long ago that a bunch of small baskets is better to carry eggs in than one large basket!!! (Had to gloat a little, makes me feel better....) I had to snip the below to fit in.

it looks like the error is with the linux source thats installed, its not finding it correctly.

try going in synaptic and reinstalling the linux source and linux header files, also move the folder that you currently have the alsa driver install files into your home folder /home/xyz and run it from there.

also whenever you use ./configure and make they should always be used as a regular user and not root

if it still wont get any futher in 'make'

then you will most likely have to go into your /usr/src and link to the right folder, remember this last part is if it fails after reinstall of the source only.

in /usr/src there should be a folder called linux-source-4.6.10 or something similar.... first copy and paste /usr/src/linux into a safe folder for later (backup the old file), then use 'sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-source-xyz /usr/src/linux' where xyz is the folder that i was talking about before that contained the source code... the linux-source-4.6.10 or similar one. good luck yet again!

What source are you referring to below?


My /usr/src folder was blank when I started the installation. I often had a complain about the missing version.h file and its folder, so I copied the files to the specific place. The files that sits there now was extracted from alsa-driver. After I did that the installation at least go further, but now it seems it was not the correct method.


Never knew this, why would it matter?


As I've mentioned, my /usr/src was blank. Should I blank it again? And then, is the linux-source downloadable? I Downloaded some files with apt-get, one of them being linux source. Don't know what happened to the file though since apt-get install the files.

For interest sake. I found this link that have some info on the sound card as well.
Just to make sure I followed the instructions. Everything worked fine up to the last command.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HdaIntelSoundHowto

Adrislayer, you the same one posting in Ubuntuforums as well?

yes, the same, since on ubuntu forum they sames to be asleep...

thanks racethesun for all your advices

I'm downloading mepis live cd and I will give it a try when it finish.

And I will try before the url from ubuntu howto too

but right now, i must confess, i'm in windows...

so right after the download, i will warn you if something good happend.

And for your errors, I haven't any of that

if you added backports to your apt-source-list it happend to me to install a bad file.

so I installed the linux-header file before to add any backports sources.

this is to get the correct version of your linux kernel
replace the numbers by what you get from uname -r

well, also, sorry to write so bad in english, I'm a native french-speaker so...

hey hey!

I don't know why but since I rebooted on ubuntu I have some sound !

the last post I made following the intel readme must have worked but since I hadn't rebooted...

but it work ! And that's very fine.

You cannot describe how happy I am having sound !

Now it isn't perfect at all. I don't know if my 5.1 sound works fine and the sound seems to be a little weird.

But since I'm not sure how I made it work, I cannot tell you any more for the moment

I will try something different and make a clean installation to see if it continue to work

I presume my last post here...

I have got the sound to work fine. for the 5.1 I'm not sure but it seems to go fine too.

I have followed the instruction from your link just above.

I have downloaded alsa-driver, alsa-lib, alsa-oss and alsa-utils

I have uncompressed them into a folder I named alsa

then

And now I have sound

I alsa have changed some things into alsamixer wich goes now fine.

At the end it wasn't so difficult to make it run correctly. I thing the most difficult part is to gather all the packages you need to compile...

Well English is my second language too. Glad to hear you have sound although bad, at least you have something to keep you awake! My speakers is so old and crappy, I will hear only bad sound. Just the other day I fixed them since only one speaker was playing. I'm currently also in wishdows and at work. Maybe you can post Ubuntu as well, just to wake them up? Will try your suggestions, just a pity my advice works for others but not myself!!!

for the linux source code.... when your in synaptic either search for packages with the word linux in them or go to development and look for it there... in the manager it should look something like linux-source-xyz.... if it is already installed then your going to have to do some searching for it and make a link like i said before

if you want what I have done:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...t=36870&page=3

I have sound work with that. Now I'm not on windows any more and I'm migrating little by little into linux.

I love it, I love to try things and solve some problems. Linux is perfect for me. But as I am now, I cannot do everthing I want

But, I will learn, next time I will be the one giving advices :d

I get this now with make:

The list is longer but everything up to that point is there. The thing is I have a linux-source 2.6.10-5 folder and made a link to it. The problem is then that ./configure complains about the missing version.h file. I checked, its not in the linux-source folder. SO I made the link to linux-headers-2.6.10.5. (I've read about that somewhere, but I can't recall where or why.) Then ./configure run without errors. But make comes up with the above.

This is soooooo annoying, I am close to the point of sacking any onboard sound and go and buy a new sound card, but I don't have the money.

Another thing is that ./configure and make won't run when I'm using regular user. It simply gives a permission denied. So I have to sudo them as well.

I have everything you asked for, and a bunch of other things suggested to me, but alas, no sound at the end of the silence.
BTW I cannot download CD's, my GPRS is way too slow for that! I need about 20hrs+ for a cd!

I sudgest you to do this:

remove with synaptics your linux header, go to apt source-list and remove all the backports, make it as clean as it was before. Normally you should have a backup version. Then, you type
now when you go into /usr/src/ you should have something like that:
In the folder linux-headers-2.6.10-5-386 there are only links to the folder linux-headers-2.6.10-5.

And, it's normal you have to use root acount if you're working in the /usr/src/ directory. I have done everthing in the /home/username/ directory so you mustn't use sudo so often, but that doesn't mean that with sudo to everthing is bad either.

I'm quite sure it is only your linux-headers that are bad, so give it a try. It will only spend you 5 min.

PS: don't forget to make a "sudo apt-get update" after you removed the backports sources.
and also the "build-essential" that I have installed came from the cd of ubuntu.