Getting sound on debian...

[iceydee]

I've been trying to get my soundcard to work for ages... it's the onboard AC97 soundboard... It worked fine on SuSE 8.0, it worked right out of the box, but I can't make it work on debian... I've compiled my own kernel (2.4.18), I've got my GeForce II Ti card to work... but not the soundboard...

I've tried to install ALSA, but I can't quite figure it out... is there anyone running Debian Woody with an AC97 that could tell me how he got it working? I'm running KDE2.2 btw...

[jon787]

good luck, I got my cs4205/ac97 (dell's documentation has both written on it, I have an Inspiron 8200) "configured" using the shotgun method of guess and test. My mono sounds play atleast twice as fast as they should (they play fine in windows, so corruption isn't the problem) but stereo ones play fine. I haven't tried ALSA yet although I will when modules come out for 2.4.19 in Debian.

There is a program called like alsa-config in debian unstable. Check testing for it.

[iceydee]

I tried alsaconfig... I'm running on testing/unstable actually...

well, I downloaded the alsa-source package, and tried both the "README.Debian" instructions and the "INSTALL" instructions for compiling. The modules are compiled and all, and there's no errors... and the correct drivers appear in /etc/modules.conf and all, but when I go to the control center in KDE there's no soundboard showing up. and I have tried with both libarts and libarts-alsa... :(