I've been reading and trying out the tips to the best of my knowledge accordingly but when try to recompile the alsa driver it still ends up with

"checking for which soundcards to compile driver for... configure: error: Unsupported soundcard intel8x0"

lspci:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Bridge (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) UltraATA-100 IDE Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
0000:02:07.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21041 [Tulip Pass 3] (rev 21)
0000:02:09.0 Serial controller: Timedia Technology Co Ltd PCI2S550 (Dual 16550 UART) (rev 01)

lsmod

snd_intel8x0 29984 0
snd_ac97_codec 64608 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 47652 0
snd_mixer_oss 16768 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 84872 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 23300 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 50276 10 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss ,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9824 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 9604 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm


uname-r

2.6.10-5-386

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device

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In the thread it was mentioned that I should install libcurses4 and reinstall libcurses5.

I Synaptic I only find libncurses4 and libncurses5 but I assume that is what's referred to but as I try to recompile:

configure: error: this packages requires a curses library
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.


Would appreciate advice,

Kman

i just tried a slax livecd, and the sound worked with it!! not even knoppix was able to get the sound working. now my question is am i able to copy the sound config from slax over to ubuntu?

thanks

bump...

can anyone help me??

I'm entirely stumped.

My only suggestion would be to see what kernel and alsa version Slax runs, and then type lsmod.(in slax)

then download the kernel that slax runs on and the version of alsa and modprobe every module that slax has loaded.

what should i look under in lsmod?

anything that has to do with snd.

My apologies in advance for raising a dead thread...

I was having the same issues with the same soundcard on a 915G. I had to build alsa 1.0.9 with snd-hda-intel to get sound to work.

I hope this helps others.

This might be too late or too dead, but here goes.

I have the Intel 915GEV board, and was unable to get sound going as well. Search under my name "GreatBrak" under this forum for my posts, it worked for others but not for me, I see you have the same kind of hassles. Follow the links, it really works. Search under "GrootBrak" under Ubuntuforums.org for similiar threads.

I finally got to compile. Even after installing Linux headers, image, and source files I was unable to compile alsa-drivers. The solution. I updated bunzip2, extracted the same files from Alsa website into the same folder and compiled with the same commands and then it worked. I really don't know if there was something else missing, but all of a sudden other "non-alsa" sources from other sites is able to compile as well after I extract with bunzip. Best of luck, I know how bad it is, I had no sound for months and now it is still very soft, and have found no solution yet. The threads had me chasing my own tail. I now run my output through an amplifier first.

Will post a new thread regarding game sounds, check out for it and reply if you know the solution!!!