Hi;

Here is more information. Sorry about not including it sooner.

Brand new machine, brand new hardware, about two months old. LOL, I wish someone would have warned me about spanking new hardware and gnu/linux .

I am using knoppix 3.2 build 4/15/03

Motherboard: Intel Desktop Board D845PESV
- it packs a Pentium 4 processor
- it has onboard sound

I read the manual( a whole 15 pages ) and there are no specs for the sound component.

I went to to intel support at
http://supportmail.intel.com/scripts...come.asp?id=36
I sent an email request for specs about the onboard sound componenet. A robot sent me back a list of general articles to read

I ran sndconfig with the following results:
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- it said it found a pci card on my system ( I don't think I have a pci bus/device )
- it said the "card" was: Intel Corp 182801DB AC '97 Audio
- the sound test failed with the following errors:

/lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o/
- no such device
-insmod failed
- insmod sound-slot failed
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I'm new to debian, have been solving other problems, haven't learned apt-get yet so I ran kpackage and found out that I have the following installed:
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- alsa-headers 0.9.2-5
- knx-alsa 0.1-2
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Does this mean that I don't have alsa installed?



I ran lspci | grep udio and got:
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00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
02:02.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
root@Wisdom:/home/knoppix#

not much more info that what sndconfig told me I'm afraid.


So, is there anything else I can try to get the onboard sound working?
If not please tell me about good sound guards not already mentioned that will be easy to find in a big computer store and that will have the best chance of working with my motherboard and knoppix.

Thanks in advance for the help

Steve