Hello friends,
i'm relatively new to linux (and totally to debian). My computer does recognize my sound card (a sound blaster live). At the start up, after putting login and password, a message says:
"error while inizialising sound card..... no such file...." I've found no /dev/dsp!
I've installed drives alsa (with apt-get install alsa), but it still doesn't work!
I've tried to recompile my kernel (2.6) but nothing. I tried alsaconf, but it did not find my card, altought if i run lspci | grep -i audio:
0000:00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS

that's my lsmod:
Module Size Used by
appletalk 36340 20
lp 10920 0
ipv6 262468 23
af_packet 22600 2
floppy 60304 0
analog 11872 0
gameport 4736 1 analog
parport_pc 36932 1
parport 41544 2 lp,parport_pc
pcspkr 3688 0
rtc 12728 0
shpchp 100716 0
pciehp 97388 0
pci_hotplug 34352 2 shpchp,pciehp
via_agp 9088 1
agpgart 34536 1 via_agp
ehci_hcd 31364 0
uhci_hcd 32784 0
usbcore 118308 4 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
sata_via 7492 0
libata 41412 1 sata_via
scsi_mod 124812 1 libata
via_rhine 21640 0
mii 5184 1 via_rhine
tsdev 7360 0
mousedev 10444 1
evdev 9600 0
capability 4616 0
commoncap 7296 1 capability
psmouse 20232 0
ide_cd 42528 1
cdrom 40284 1 ide_cd
ext3 126760 1
jbd 61848 1 ext3
mbcache 9284 1 ext3
ide_generic 1472 0
via82cxxx 13980 1
ide_disk 19264 3
ide_core 138724 4 ide_cd,ide_generic,via82cxxx,ide_disk
unix 28660 326
font 8448 0
vesafb 6688 0
cfbcopyarea 3840 1 vesafb
cfbimgblt 3072 1 vesafb
cfbfillrect 3712 1 vesafb

I'm desperate, please help me.
Thanks for future help

What version of Alsa are you using? From what your computer reports, this isn't a normal Audigy emu10k1/2 chip, so you *need* to have at least version 1.0.6 or greater of Alsa to support this card (in 1.0.6 the module is (IIRC) snd-audigyls, in newer versions it has the more generic chipset based name of snd-ca0106).

Therefore, as root (or using 'su'), tryor

well,
I've download the least alsa avaiable just yesterday. My computer is an usual desktop ram about 700mb, hd 80gb, adm sepron 1.8 ghz.
I tried what you said, but the initial error message is still on. what can i do?

Thanks for help