Re: help setting up sound

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Michael B. Levy wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I'm having trouble figuring out how to configure my
> sound card (I'm running Sarge), due to the fact that I
> can't quite understand the specs of my motherboard.
>
> My computer's specs seem to indicate a sound module
> twice:
>
>
> • VIA KT600 + VT8237 Chipset
> • Integrated C-Media CMI9739A 6-channel audio CODEC 
>
> In any case, the machine doesn't seem to know even
> what sound card I have.  KMix says "Unknown" when I
> open it.  I installed the alsa packages, and I made
> sure in the aumixrc file, the volumes weren't muted. 
> Still, no sound.
>  

I'd run "lspci" to see what the chipset is. If it says "unknown" I'd 
upgrade my kernel and/or pciutils and/or my entire system to sid, and 
try again. Once the system reports what type it is, you should be able 
to use modconf to add the appropriate driver (or use discover).

--
Kent