[Techtalk] Alsa on Debian unstable
aec
brat at magma.ca
Fri Dec 3 13:00:19 EST 2004
Hello
I am having problems getting sound working on my Dell inspiron 8200
laptop.
I am using Debian Sid, kernel 2.6.8. The card installed in this
laptop is known as an intel8x0.
I have up to tonight though it was an alsa or kernel problem but
just noticed this in dmesg:
supergrass ~ # dmesg | grep sound
No soundcards found.
ALSA sound/pci/intel8x0.c:2514: unable to grab IRQ 7
ALSA sound/pci/intel8x0.c:2822: joystick(s) found
ALSA sound/pci/intel8x0m.c:1241: unable to grab IRQ 7
dmesg shows an irq problem, this is new to me in linux, the last time I
had IRQ issues was with win 98 I think. How does one go about troubleshooting
IRQ problems in linux?
This dmesg btw is from the fresh install, oddly though, 3 nights ago, with
alsa still not working on the old install, dmesg showed only this:
supergrass ~ # dmesg | grep sound
No soundcards found.
So, I am now not sure what the next step should be? I am thinking even to
install XP and see if windows picks up the card, at least that will rule out
hardware failure?
thanks so much...
--
Angelina Carlton
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