MillTek wrote:
MillTek wrote:I went to install alsa-base from apt-get and I got this result; apt-get install alsa-base Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: alsa-utils Suggested packages: apmd alsadriver The following NEW packages will be installed: alsa-base alsa-utils 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/175kB of archives. After unpacking 614kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1: field name `contains' must be followed by colon E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) Anyone have any idea what this is about?Answered that one myself. Appears that a file called 'available' in /var/lib/dpkg is badly corrupted (had a power failure here today. Does anyone have any idea where I can get a fresh copy or how to generate one?
I believe you can just rename the file to get it "out of the way", and then rerun "apt-get update".
But before doing installing alsa-base, are you in the audio group (log in as yourself and type "groups" to see which groups you're in. If you're not in the audio group, add yourself by typing (as root) "adduser jim audio" where "jim" is your login name; then logout/log back in.
Also, what modules do you have loaded? Try "lsmod" to show the modules; you should see (among others,) something like:
snd_pcm_oss 53732 0 snd_mixer_oss 19840 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_via82xx 26144 0 snd_pcm 100196 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx snd_timer 25924 1 snd_pcm snd_ac97_codec 62724 1 snd_via82xx snd_page_alloc 12164 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm snd_mpu401_uart 7872 1 snd_via82xx snd_rawmidi 25120 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 8136 1 snd_rawmidisnd 55780 9 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_devicevia82cxxx_audio 29896 0 uart401 11716 1 via82cxxx_audio sound 83820 2 via82cxxx_audio,uart401 soundcore 10272 3 snd,via82cxxx_audio,sound ac97_codec 18828 1 via82cxxx_audio
Of these, I think the last five are the most critical. Of course, since your audio is i810-based instead of via82x-based, you'll want the i810 modules. Run "modconf" and look for i810 or Intel Integrated sound drivers, or just manually try "modprobe i810_audio" (look under /lib/modules/[your module version]/kernel . . . for the available module names you can try), and if it works, add this name to /etc/modules for future boots.
-- Kent