Hi I hope someone can help me. I have recently had debian installed on my pc. I have installed the grip package to use but I find I have a problem with any sound coming through my speakers. I am wondering if I need to install something to allow me to listen. Have checked volumes etc.
Many thanks,
edentree

Have you run alsaconf yet?
Also, the permissions on your /dev/pcm***'s might be wrong.

am installing alsa now.
no supported Pnp or pci card.
should i probe legacy ISA cards- it sais this may make my system unstable.

hmm?

What kind of soundcard do you have?

Should be soundblaster. (left over from windows) eeek! I haven't installed anything new. The person who installed linux did get a sound test but nothing now.

Should be soundblaster? Is it an onboard soundcard, or is it separate?

Because I think that onboard soundcards can be a pain in the ass.

yep Its onboard.
(realised i should have posted in newbies)

Hi,

If your card is pci, you can probe it by typing 'lspci' at the root prompt. It should be obvious which line refers to your sound card, and you can then look up the correct ALSA driver to use or post the line here and get some advice.

If your card is ISA it will not show up with lspci - you have to use ISAPNP and you get to play around with manually assigning interrupts and IO ranges, just like in the bad old days!

TIM

0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8 237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)

I'm assuming this is correct
so how do i now use alsa to find the card?

According to the Alsa website (www.alsa-project.org), your soundcard is supported, it's odd that it didn't show up during probing though. Anyway... try this and see if it works:

Note to debian users: You need to save this information into a file in the /etc/modutils/ directory (Eg. /etc/modutils/alsa) and run update-modules

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
# module options should go here

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

Note to debian users: You need to save this information into a file in the /etc/modutils/ directory (Eg. /etc/modutils/alsa) and run update-modules

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
# module options should go here

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

PS: I think I also have this onboard soundcard, but I've disabled it and am using my SBLive, so I'll enable it and see if I can get it working as well

Cheers Berto,
will try it soon.
tried to do /etc/modules in root to check and now have a permission problem, Doh!
Will post back when I have some info. lets hope its good news lol