Kent West wrote:
MillTek wrote:
MillTek wrote:
I went to install alsa-base from apt-get and I got this result;
apt-get install alsa-base Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: alsa-utils Suggested packages: apmd alsadriver The following NEW packages will be installed: alsa-base alsa-utils 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/175kB of archives. After unpacking 614kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1: field name `contains' must be followed by colon E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Anyone have any idea what this is about?
Answered that one myself. Appears that a file called 'available' in /var/lib/dpkg is badly corrupted (had a power failure here today. Does anyone have any idea where I can get a fresh copy or how to generate one?
I believe you can just rename the file to get it "out of the way", and then rerun "apt-get update".
But before doing installing alsa-base, are you in the audio group (log in as yourself and type "groups" to see which groups you're in. If you're not in the audio group, add yourself by typing (as root) "adduser jim audio" where "jim" is your login name; then logout/log back in.
Also, what modules do you have loaded? Try "lsmod" to show the modules; you should see (among others,) something like:
snd_pcm_oss 53732 0
snd_mixer_oss 19840 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_via82xx 26144 0
snd_pcm 100196 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx
snd_timer 25924 1 snd_pcm
snd_ac97_codec 62724 1 snd_via82xx
snd_page_alloc 12164 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 7872 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 25120 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8136 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 55780 9 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
via82cxxx_audio 29896 0 uart401 11716 1 via82cxxx_audio sound 83820 2 via82cxxx_audio,uart401 soundcore 10272 3 snd,via82cxxx_audio,sound ac97_codec 18828 1 via82cxxx_audio
Of these, I think the last five are the most critical. Of course, since your audio is i810-based instead of via82x-based, you'll want the i810 modules. Run "modconf" and look for i810 or Intel Integrated sound drivers, or just manually try "modprobe i810_audio" (look under /lib/modules/[your module version]/kernel . . . for the available module names you can try), and if it works, add this name to /etc/modules for future boots.
Kent, Here are the results of my lsmod;
lsmod Module Size Used by snd_mixer_oss 16640 0 tsdev 7168 0 mousedev 9684 2 psmouse 17544 0 nvidia 2072232 12 ipv6 220384 8 af_packet 20616 2 shpchp 87404 0 pciehp 86508 0 pci_hotplug 32176 2 shpchp,pciehp snd_intel8x0 31528 0 snd_ac97_codec 54916 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm 84900 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_timer 23044 1 snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 10884 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm gameport 4736 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_mpu401_uart 7296 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_rawmidi 22688 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 7944 1 snd_rawmidi snd 48356 8 snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec, snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device ehci_hcd 26116 0 joydev 9408 0 usbhid 29248 0 ohci_hcd 17668 0 usbcore 95068 5 ehci_hcd,usbhid,ohci_hcd nvidia_agp 7580 1 agpgart 31272 2 nvidia_agp evdev 9088 0 i810_audio 30356 0 ac97_codec 16908 1 i810_audio soundcore 9824 2 snd,i810_audio forcedeth 14336 0 nls_cp437 6016 2 capability 4356 0 commoncap 7168 1 capability ide_cd 38788 1 cdrom 35488 1 ide_cd rtc 12088 0 xfs 511800 0 reiserfs 199536 0 jfs 154364 0 vfat 13184 1 fat 41664 1 vfat isofs 32440 0 ext3 108392 0 jbd 54040 1 ext3 ide_disk 17152 4 ide_generic 1664 0 amd74xx 13340 1 ide_core 134496 4 ide_cd,ide_disk,ide_generic,amd74xx unix 25776 260 font 8576 0 cfbcopyarea 3840 0 cfbimgblt 3200 0
I carriage-returned the line 'snd' to reduce width. All of the reasonable modules that I find in /lib/modules/2.6.6-1-386 are already in the lsmod results so I have no clue what to add. modprobe i810_audio produces no results. I tried , by the way, renaming that 'available' file and redoping apt-get update but that does not re-create the file from scratch.
Thanks, Jim
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