If this information is lacking please let me know. I have spent many hours trying to find and install the proper driver.

The motherboard uses an ALC 888 chipset.


I am using Debian ETCH

edhe@hebrews:~$ uname -a
Linux hebrews 2.6.18-5-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 2 20:37:02 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lspci -v
00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)

hebrews:/home/edhe# hwinfo --sound
16: PCI 05.0: 0403 Audio device
[Created at pci.281]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_3f0
Unique ID: CvwD.8BYhLi16tP3
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:00:05.0
Hardware Class: sound
Model: "Hewlett-Packard Company Audio device"
Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
Device: pci 0x03f0
SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company"
SubDevice: pci 0x2a5c
Revision: 0xa2
Memory Range: 0xfe028000-0xfe02bfff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 11 (no events)
Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd000003F0sv0000103Csd00002A5Cbc04sc03i00"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown


I tried to install the latest alsa-driver, and got the error:
The file /home/edhe/Desktop/linux-2.6.18.5/include/linux/version.h does not exist.
Please install the package with full kernel sources for your distribution
or use --with-kernel=dir option to specify another directory with kernel
sources (default is /usr/src/linux).

have you tried;
apt-get install alsa-utils
alsaconf