Sound on a IBM Thinkpad R31

[Anco]

Hey
I've got an IBM Thinkpad R31 that i have installed an debian sarge on. And later i've updated this installation to an testing version.
The problem is that alsa never has been able to find my soundcard.

I've installed alsa-base and alsa-utils, and I've maked shure that my soundcard (based on the i810 chip) is installed in modconf.

But when i run alsaconf to make it find my soundcard i get the messages

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modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found

before i see an page of alsaconf where i'm told to stop all my soundprograms. afterwards i get this message in the console

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Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: (none loaded).

and then alsa tells me:

No supported PnP or PCI card found.

Would you like to probe legacy ISA sound cards/chips?

And even when I allow it to do this it doesn't find my card.

My dmesg tells me

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i810: Intel ICH3 found at IO 0x9c00 and 0x9800, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 11
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ADS72 (Analog Devices AD1881A)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 Unable to map surround DAC's (or DAC's not present), total channels = 2

Hope you folks will be able to help me out, i'm pretty deperate

Regards

Andreas Corneliussen

[Anco]

Sorry
Maybe I've found it out myself. I just tried to make an

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uname -r

Just to find out that i had kernel version 2.4.27-2-386 which, as far as I know, is to old to use alsa.

Regards

Andreas

Hey
I've got an IBM Thinkpad R31 that i have installed an debian sarge on. And later i've updated this installation to an testing version.
The problem is that alsa never has been able to find my soundcard.

I've installed alsa-base and alsa-utils, and I've maked shure that my soundcard (based on the i810 chip) is installed in modconf.

But when i run alsaconf to make it find my soundcard i get the messages

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modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found

before i see an page of alsaconf where i'm told to stop all my soundprograms. afterwards i get this message in the console

Code: Select all

Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: (none loaded).

and then alsa tells me:

No supported PnP or PCI card found.

Would you like to probe legacy ISA sound cards/chips?

And even when I allow it to do this it doesn't find my card.

My dmesg tells me

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i810: Intel ICH3 found at IO 0x9c00 and 0x9800, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 11
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ADS72 (Analog Devices AD1881A)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 Unable to map surround DAC's (or DAC's not present), total channels = 2

Hope you folks will be able to help me out, i'm pretty deperate

Regards

Andreas Corneliussen

[Anco]

Now that i've got my sound to work i've got another problem.
When i run alsaconf, and choses yes to change /etc/modprobe.d/sound and /etc/modprobe.conf, it works until i restart the computer, and then I have to run alsaconf all over again. It doesn't help to run "alsactl store" afterwards.

Don't know what to do, please help me

Andreas