after boot up, when the sound is not working, and you need to call alsa-conf, plase enter ``lsmod | grep snd_intel8x0'' . if it prints something like > lsmod | grep intel snd_intel8x0 28768 2 snd_ac97_codec 73696 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1 snd_pcm 86408 6 snd_bt87x,snd_intel8x0,snd_usb_audio,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_page_alloc 7428 4 snd_bt87x,snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd 46628 20 snd_bt87x,snd_intel8x0,snd_usb_audio,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep than your driver have loaded, and u can skip the rest of this mail. if not, please read on. im running debian unstable w/ kernel 2.6.10 right now. my installation has support for umod. you can verify this by entering ``mount'' in the console, if it does print a line like ``none on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=5M,mode=0755)'' then you are also using udev. (warning: the is oversimplified and in some cases wrong:) udev is an userspace daemon that will create the files on-the-fly when a driver wants them to be created. tradiditional you had these files on the fs on your harddisk, for all kinds of possible devices, like from /dev/dsp0 to /dev/dsp6 or something. if some app wanted to open an device, it tried to open that file, then the kernel called some user space app which parse /etc/modules.conf and load the aproprate driver. this was called module auto loading. but now you need first to load the driver, so that the udev deamon can create these nodes. i stepped over this with my parport scanner: before i had udev the kernel module ppdev was automagical loaded, but now it isn't. this might also happen to your sound driver. if this is the case, you have two possibilities: a) during boot up, but AFTER /dev has been mounted as tmpfs, you have to create the coresponding device files, eg with the aid of /etc/udev/links.conf: i add a line like M parport0 c 99 0 (for my scanner !) you have to figure out hot to add files for sound b) autoload your driver during boot-up, eg by adding a line containing ``snd_intel8x0'' to /etc/modules. (this is obviously a little bit more easy) but i also have to tell you that on my system, every shit that can easyliy be discovered, is loaded during boot-up, by the means of hotplug. so your audio *should* propably work out-of-teh-box (tm). as it does not, this might just be a symptome of an even bigger problem. -tom Robert Bailey schrieb: > looks like you need to move these lines from > > /etc/modutils/sound > > to /etc/modutils/alsa > > and run update-modules > > options snd device_mode=0660 > alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 > alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 > > Bails > > > Erik Thorsson wrote: > >> >> I tried removing both of those modules in turn, but it didn't fix the >> problem. In fact, now when I run alsaconf it can't even detect my >> soundcard. :) >> >> I assume there is some kind of modules database and when I moved the >> modules out of their normal place, they were removed from this >> database. I just need to add them back in, right? >> >> How do you do this on Debian? >> >> I could just apt-get ALSA all over again, but I'd rather understand >> the problem and how to fix it for the next time it crops up. >> >> If anyone could assist, I'd be grateful. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -E >> >> P.S. Also, neither insmod nor modprobe were successful for loading >> the kernel modules manually. >> >> >> paul wisehart wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I had a similiar problem on my laptop ... which is running windows >>> now, so I can't give you the exact details, but try this: >>> >>> >>> THere are 2 similiar alsa drivers for snd_intel8x0 >>> (I think that the other one has an "m" at the end.) >>> >>> Well the wrong one was getting loaded in my machine. >>> I just move the offending one out of the >>> /lib/modules/<kernel-version> directory, >>> and all is well. I actually do that each time I build a new kernel. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 12:46:37AM -0500, Erik Thorsson wrote: >>> >>>> I have to run 'alsaconf' every time I boot my Debian Sarge 2.6.8-1 box >>>> to get sound to work. >>>> >>>> It detects the 'intel8x0 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound >>>> Controller (rev a0)'. >>>> ... >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > >
