I am currently running Debian with a 2.4 kernel. My computer is a 3.0GHz P4 with an asus p5p800 motherboard with integrated sound.

I did exactly as it said to do in this article under the 'configuring
sound' heading.

linuxtimes.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=457&page=2

From this, I was able to get my soundcard type:

debian:/mnt# lspci | grep audio
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER
(ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
debian:/mnt#

i did everything else exactly as it said to do, but my soundcard wasnt
listed when i went to run modconf, so i tried a few of them but nothing
worked.

Anybody have any thoughts as to what I might try next?

Hi, and welcome to LQ!

Do you find any referneces to the audio device
in the output of dmesg?
What do you see when you do
lsmod
?


Cheers,
Tink

I didn't see anything in the output of dmesg related to audio or sound.

here's what i see when i did lsmod:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
input 3040 0 (autoclean)
apm 8364 1 (autoclean)
parport_pc 19432 1 (autoclean)
lp 5540 0
parport 21608 1 [parport_pc lp]
af_packet 11048 1 (autoclean)
hw_random 2456 0 (unused)
i810_rng 2368 0 (unused)
printer 6912 0
ehci-hcd 14796 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 19504 0 (unused)
usbcore 52268 1 [printer ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
ide-scsi 8272 0
scsi_mod 86020 1 [ide-scsi]
sk98lin 123880 1
soundcore 3268 0
ide-cd 27040 1
cdrom 26212 0 [ide-cd]
rtc 5768 0 (autoclean)
ext3 65388 2 (autoclean)
jbd 34628 2 (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect 288 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ide-disk 12416 3 (autoclean)
piix 7784 2 (autoclean)
ide-core 91800 4 (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-cd ide-detect ide-disk piix]
unix 12720 173 (autoclean)

Try a manual
modprobe i810_audio
modprobe ac97_codec
and see what happens ...

Cheers,
Tink

not sure what you mean, tinkster. i typed those commands in and nothing happened

Tried a lsmod afterwards?

If they are listed now then they're loaded ... a little fiddle
with the mixer may well prove that sound is working.


Cheers,
Tink

Module Size Used by Not tainted
nls_cp437 4284 1 (autoclean)
ntfs 45024 1 (autoclean)
input 3040 0 (autoclean)
apm 8364 1 (autoclean)
parport_pc 19432 1 (autoclean)
lp 5540 0
parport 21608 1 [parport_pc lp]
af_packet 11048 1 (autoclean)
hw_random 2456 0 (unused)
i810_rng 2368 0 (unused)
printer 6912 0
ehci-hcd 14796 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 19504 0 (unused)
usbcore 52268 1 [printer ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
ide-scsi 8272 0
scsi_mod 86020 1 [ide-scsi]
sk98lin 123880 1
soundcore 3268 0
ide-cd 27040 1
cdrom 26212 0 [ide-cd]
rtc 5768 0 (autoclean)
ext3 65388 2 (autoclean)
jbd 34628 2 (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect 288 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ide-disk 12416 4 (autoclean)
piix 7784 2 (autoclean)
ide-core 91800 5 (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-cd ide-detect ide-di sk piix]
unix 12720 201 (autoclean)


this is my lsmod after typing those commands you mentioned. i dont' think they're listed and probably still not loaded. Any ideas?

please check the volume level to make sure that it's not zero (by default). Use Kmix or something else ...

how do you "fiddle with the mixer"? I typed in the commands again and then lsmod, but i don't think it's loaded. very confused ...

tried kmix, but all there is is a blank screen. what does that mean?

I am having the exact same problem with the exact same sound card.

I can't load the modules either, and I think they are installed since when I did modprobe on them, there wasn't any output.

I had the sound working for a little while when I first installed my system, but now there isn't any sound and I can't open any mixers.

go to http://www.alsa-project.org/ and check if your sound card is supported. If that use alsa-1.0.8.

best regards

asus had tried there best to not support linux. They even had a lawsute put agenest them here not to long ago. If i was you i would go and buy and Sound Blaster Live. They don't take a-lot of money out of your wallet, and it fixed the problems on the asus motherbord i had. Hope that gives you a idea of what probley wrong.

exactly, what sound card are you using ???

I am using an intergrated sound card, namely the Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02).

I have used several distros and this has worked in every single one of them, including Fedora Core 2 and 3, Ubuntu (which is debian based), Gentoo, and Knoppix.

I have been using it with ALSA on all of those systems, running through the eSound Daemon (although with debian, now I'm using KDE so it would be aRts). From what I used, it seems like ALSA's drivers for this card are already pretty sophisticated - the sound quality is indistinguishable from the Windows drivers written by Intel themselves.

Anyway, I'm sure it's a pretty simple problem - but it's also a problem I've never run into before and I have no idea how to fix it. Help!