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I'm using Debian Sarge and trying to configure sound card, which is an integrated one with ASUS motherboard (ASUS SiS661FX/SiS963L/W697-P4S800MX (PGA 478)).
Sound card: SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
I downloaded ALSA and configured it (using ./configure), but when doing "make" it says "ALSA is already in Linux Kernel".
I don't know how can I configure ALSA in Debian now??
Please help....
Thanks,
Ankur
lspci output -->
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661FX/M661FX/M661MX Host (rev 11)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0003
0000:00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25)
0000:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
0000:00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
0000:00:08.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics V.92 56K WinModem (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661FX/M661FX/M661MX/741/M741/760/M760 PCI/AGP
alsa wasn't installed, I got it installed and ran "alsaconf".
It couldn't find any PCI or any other driver. I got integrated sound card with motherboard.
That could be the reason.
Tried 'cat /etc/sndstat' , but doesn't display anything.
Checked '/etc/modules.conf', alsa has put alsa-related sound card aliases into it.
When I try 'Music Player' from GNOME desktop, it says 'Nothing at /dev/dsp'
In past, I used 'modconf' and in sound drivers section, I tried putting other drivers e.g. Yamaha,Intel or others and it didn't complain that it couldnt find sound card, then when I tried playing music, it was not giving any error rather there was no sound.
/dev/dsp is not alsa, but opensound (unless you have support for opensound emulation in alsa)
As for having an integrated card, even though it has no visible connectors, it is connected to the pci bus, as shown by lspci. This is not your problem.
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