Debian not seeing sound card
Hello fellow debs,
I just installed a basic cheap sound card. a compusa $20 'Avance Logic als 4000'.
I'm writing thsi because it doesn't work. The first thing that worries me is
that it doesn't show up in dmesg. So i think that is the real problem, the
system doesn't even admit there is a sound card installed. (by the way, i
know it does work because i also have a seldom used version of windows 2000
which see's and can use the card fine.)
I have apt-get install most of the alsa related drivers and utils and run alsaconf
but for some reason alsa doesnt see a sound card and continues to fail.
<cmustard /var/log>$ sudo modprobe -a sound
<cmustard /var/log>$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
sound 52876 0 (unused)
soundcore 3236 2 [sound]
Here's what happens if i try to open mpg123
<cmustard /var/log>$ mpg123 ~/personal/downloads/with.mp3
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3.
Version 0.59r (1999/Jun/15). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp.
Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Can't open default sound device!
<cmustard /var/log>$ sudo alsaconf
Loading driver:
No ALSA driver installed
Starting ALSA sound driver (version none):modprobe: Can't locate module snd
failed.
Setting the PCM volume to 100% and the Master output volume to 50%
No ALSA driver installed
Could not initialize the mixer, the card was probably
not detected correctly.
I think i may be missing something but don't seem to realize what it is.
I would appreciate any insight you may provide. thank you
-cmus
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