I set up my Thinkpad to run with Debian lately running Blackbox as WM and the latest 2.6 Kernel.Everything is working fine for me so far except for the sound, which is causing some trouble.
I searched the internet and this forums for a solution, but nothing what I tried worked out.
I installed alsa-base and alsa-utils and run alsaconf thereafter, which found my soundcard well during the selection process, but started returning errors while installing it. Here's what alsoconf gave me:
Well... I don't really get any information about what went wrong out of this and my knowledge of linux is far to weak to have any idea where to look for the error source.amixer: Mixer attach hw:0 error: No such file or directory
[repeated a few rows]
done.
Setting default volumes...
Saving the mixer setup used for this in /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
/usr/sbin/alsactl: save_state No soundcards found...
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Now alsa is ready to use. (<- of course...)
Another tidbit I found was suggesting to modify the /etc/modprobe.conf, because there was some issues with the 2.6 kernel and the soundchip from T30 notebooks... the problem is, there is no modprobe.conf in my /etc/ folder - and I dont really know what it does so I decided to not just mess around with it.
Whats a little strange, is that though my soundcard doesnt work with the software I tried it with (laby - a small rpg game and mpg321) it DOES produce a beep sound on my headset (not the PC speakers!) while pressing tabulator in the console if there is no filename to expand to.
I would really appreciate any help, that can be given to me.
Greets
Daniel