I got the sound working on my Dell GX200, which uses an onboard Intel AD1881 AC97 (AC'97) audio device, by reinstalling Debian 3.0 Woody and typing bf24 at the boot: prompt after restarting with the first Debian CD.
At the "install kernel and driver modules" screen (which you can also get to at any time by typing "modconf" at the command line), I made sure that I selected "i810_audio" under driver/sound. This automatically selected "ac97_codec" and "soundcore" as well.
In my case, the command "lsmod" did not list any other audio related modules except the above three.
That was it--didn't need to change anything else anywhere! And yes, XMMS played both OGG and MP3 files!
Maybe there was an easier way to put the 2.4 kernel over my 2.2 kernel...
Hope this helps others and spare them looking around for hours I did! Lynn
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Doing a lsmod shows I have no audio modules installed. All I've got is af_packet. I went back and ran modconf to see if I could add modules, but there were no audio ones listed; just block, net, fs, cdrom and misc (no, nothing useful in misc).
Is this because I am using the 2.2 kernel? (I had hit Enter and not bf24 at the CD install boot: prompt)
I checked out the www.alsa-project.org page and it seemed that they had a driver for Intel AD1881 AC'97 audio, but I needed soundcore.o installed (which I don't).
Does this mean I have to (gulp) recompile the kernel? Or use the bf24 kernel? In the latter case, how do I simply replace the kernel? By rerunning the CD install and have it not wipe out my / partition?
Yes, there was an easier way to get a 2.4 kernel. You can use dselect or aptitude or apt to find/install a new kernel. For example:
enjae[westk]:/home/westk> apt-cache search kernel-image-2.4.2
kernel-image-2.4.22-1-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.22 on 386.
kernel-image-2.4.22-1-586tsc - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.22 on Pentium-Classic.
kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.22 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV.
blah blah blah
Then to install the 2.4.22 image for a Pentium P4 machine:
enjae[westk]:/home/westk> apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686
Add the initrd line to /etc/lilo.conf if necessary (probably in your case) as instructed during the install, then reboot. You're done.
-- Kent
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