No Sound - Open to suggestions...

[MadSc13ntist]

Hi,

I have an XP box that I recently installed Debian (Sarge) for a Dual-Boot system. I am using a PCI SoundBlaster Audigy Soundcard.

I am enjoying my Debian experience with one small exception... no sound.
I installed KDE and everytime it loads i get an error message:

(Informational - artsmessage)

Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

If i use the Zen LiveCD my sound card works just fine... but i can't seem to get my sound up and running.

Any Ideas? Suggestions? Anybody seen this before?

[Guest]

¿Is your user in the sound group?

[MadSc13ntist]

Yes I am already added, but just to be sure I double checked....

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madsc13ntist:/etc# adduser madsc13ntist audio
The user `madsc13ntist' is already a member of `audio'.

After running:

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madsc13ntist:/etc# lspci -v

I Returned:

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0000:00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs SB Audigy 2 ZS (SB0350)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
        I/O ports at b400 [size=64]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

I was looking here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/200 ... 03551.html

And i was wondering if it might be a driver problem.....

That is the same chip that was used on some Sound Blaster PCI cards. The
chip should be supported by the es1371 driver. To use the OSS driver,
try

modprobe es1371

To load the driver automatically when the sound card is accessed for the
first time, add

alias sound-slot-0 es1371

to /etc/modutils/local (kernel 2.4) and/or /etc/modprobe.d/local (kernel
2.6). Next run update-modules. Note: You can add the line to any file
in /etc/modutils or /etc/modprobe.d, not necessarily local.

I am still unable to get ANY manor of sound from my card... Any Ideas?

[MadSc13ntist]

needed the latest kernel image..

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apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-386

The sound flowing out of my card has never been so sweet!

w00t sound!