Hello everyone, I would like to ask your help in the following situation.
I installed Sarge on my laptop, which has an atiixp sound chipset on board. After installation all sound was muted, including pc speaker and of course the soundcard. Running alsaconf, I could see my card, although I got an error -13, no soundcard detected at the end of the process. Here let me note, that I get a silly atiixp modem as well in lspci, where this is not true, I dont have such a modem, ALSA disabled it and put a lower priority on the alsa-base file, in etc/modutils. But still no sound. I think this has to do with some support they tried to insert to the alsas modules or something like that. ANyways, running alsamixer, or any mixer did not help, and I am member of the audio group of course. Looking through forums did not help much, I got more confused I think. Therefore, I visited the ALSA webpage where my chipset is supported and tried to follow the instructions from there. http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=ATI&card=ATI-IXP+southbridge+AC97+audio.&chip=IXP+SB150%2C+IXP+SB200%2C+IXP+SB250%2C+IXP+SB300%2C+IXP+SB400&module=atiixp Downloaded alsa-driver, alsa-lib and utils and tried to make configure but it always exits with compile error. ( I think it has to do with looking in /usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver/acore for files which are not there, although extraction of files went smoothly). Now to the weird part: After doing the above, of course sound was not working still, I run alsaconf and it does not detect the soundcard at all. Furthermore, the pc speaker is umuted !!! I also playd with the alsa service, enabling it or disabling it on startup but still no difference. Can anyone please point me in the correct direction? I am confused and I dont kno where to look anymore. Sorry for the long post, any help appreciated greatly. Cheers, LefTy
