Re: why does my sound card not work?

[Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.debian.user@gmail.com>]

On 30/12/13 02:54, Long Wind wrote:
> Even though I don't think it can be solved, I follow your instruction anyway
> I use wheezy
> (I run your commands with motherboard's sound chip enabled)
> 
> lspci | grep -i audio
> 
> 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 07)
> 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)

Thanks.

> 
> modprobe snd-ens1371
> get no output


So no problem there. It's after that the problem occurs.

> 
> dpkg --get-selections | grep 'alsa\|pulse'
> libpulse0:i386					install


# apt-get install alsa-base alsamixergui alsa-utils


NOTE: once the latter is installed you can run the tests Ralph suggests.

> 
> cat /var/log/syslog | grep -i  "warn\|fail\|alert\|error\|es1\|snd_\|ac'97"
> 
> Dec 27 06:50:34 debian kernel: [ 2119.355883] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb]
> Unhandled error code
<snipped>

Install the packages as suggested above. Then work through Ralph's
suggestions.


Kind regards