Hmmm...no sound

[macdude425]

I am running Debian Sarge on my dad's Dell Latitude D600 laptop, and I recompiled the kernel (several times, because I kept screwing it up) not so long ago to 2.6.15.6. Finally, I got everything to work, except the sound card. I compiled in ALSA support as a module, and even went back and looked at the config I used to make sure I had the driver for this sound card checked, and I did. So I deleted alsa and redid apt-get install alsa, ran alsaconf, let it install the driver, and it didn't work. But, if I boot into the original precompiled kernel (2.6.8), the sound works.

Could somebody please tell me what the HECK I did wrong?

TIA everybody.

[The General]

try this -

apt-get install module-assistant

m-a prepare

m-a auto-install alsa


i have never had that not work for me on several different computers with different sound cards. although they were running etch and unstable, i've never installed stable, i always just install testing or unstable, so yeah.

[macdude425]

Unfortunately that didn't do it. It says the driver is loaded, there's just no sound...

[The General]

lol have you checked the volume levels? and what about the manual dial for volume on the laptop

thats probably not the problem ... but i'm out of ideas, you did my plan B in your first post

[macdude425]

There IS no manual dial on the laptop...there are volume keys, but I checked, they're just keyboard keys with special keycodes that trigger volume up or down only in Windows. And yes, I made sure the volume was all the way up in alsamixer.

[Grayfox]

Is alsa installed ?

Is Gnome configured to use alsa ?

[macdude425]

ALSA is installed, and no, GNOME isn't configured to use ALSA, since I'm using KDE.

(KDE is, however.)

[The General]

hehe

[Grayfox]

Originally posted by macdude425
ALSA is installed, and no, GNOME isn't configured to use ALSA, since I'm using KDE.

(KDE is, however.)