I have just done a fresh install of Debian Linux 2.4.27-2-386.
The installation went smoothly and no errors were displayed that I could see through the installation. After it advised me to remove my CDROM from the drive and reboot.
My GRUB boot loader comes up but when I try to access both the recovery and debian partition I get this error message:

Segmentation fault
<6>Jounralled Block driver loaded
pivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

I am trying to install this on my Acer TravelMate 2700 laptop, I have no floppy disk drives and my only Linux CD is the Debian boot disk.
Any ideas how I can go about resolving this?

Thanks for your help,
DaveyB

Is it a fairly new laptop? If so, try re-installing and typing linux26 at the boot prompt. This should install Sarge with a newer 2.6.8 kernel. Or if you're brave, download the Etch cd, which will give you a 2.6.16 kernel.

I would say, install Etch if you want a fairly new laptop to work. One caveat: I recommend getting the "weekly" netinstall disk rather than the "official" Beta3 ... I install Etch a lot, on laptops as well as desktop machines. Several people have complained about the Grub install not working from the Beta3 installation. I actually had it happen myself recently, after pooh poohing other such reports. I reinstalled using the weekly build with no problems.

I'd vote Etch also. I"m in the process of doing that now. I'm having a bit of trouble as I want KDE not Gnome. I had it going but was also having some issues with Bibletime. So far it's been fine other than that.
Sarge gave me no issues at all as far as those go but I was having issues trying to make my usb flashdrive auto mount. I've read that Etch is supposed to take care of that for me.

Thankyou for all your help, by using the Linux26 at boot I was able to install. I am all setup apart from a couple of things.

1) I have installed KDE and for some reason my resolution is to small, I set the value to 800x600 in the options as I know it was safe. Now I am in the GUI I want to increase the resolution but it wont let me choose anything higher than this. Any ideas?

I will only ask 1 question at a time . Thankyou for your help again!

As root, doon a commandline. Change xfree86 to xorg if that's what you have. Answer the questions, accept defaults if you don't know what to answer. When you come to the screen section, choose "medium" over "advanced" as this allows you to simply add the required resolutions. Select a resolution with an asterix (*) with the space-bar. Save the config file and restart the X-server.

I assume you figured out that you have to get that from Sid. Hasn't given me any problems tho. More stable overall than Gnomesword which is in testing.

Brilliant now my resolution looks good and my laptop keyboard is back to normal. Now then just a couple more questions and I will be on my way. Thanks again for all your help.

I have a realtek ac'97 Audio card, for some reason when I boot into Debian with this SOUND card I get an error message saying:

Sound Server Infromation Message
Error whilst initializing the sound driver
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (no such file or directory)
The sound service will continue, using the null output device.

Any ideas how I can fix it?

Heres Some Information I Have Gathered
uname -all
Linux foo 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Tue Aug 16 12:46:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

lsmod
Module Size Used by
ipv6 229892 8
ds 17796 2
af_packet 20872 2
irtty_sir 8320 0
sir_dev 18092 1 irtty_sir
irda 167360 2 irtty_sir,sir_dev
crc_ccitt 2432 1 irda
pcspkr 3816 0
rtc 12088 0
8139cp 19072 0
snd_atiixp 19880 0
snd_ac97_codec 59268 1 snd_atiixp
snd_pcm 85384 1 snd_atiixp
snd_timer 23300 1 snd_pcm
snd 50660 4 snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9824 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 11144 2 snd_atiixp,snd_pcm
ehci_hcd 27908 0
tsdev 7168 0
mousedev 9996 1
joydev 9536 0
evdev 9088 0
usbhid 28864 0
ohci_hcd 19460 0
usbcore 104164 5 ehci_hcd,usbhid,ohci_hcd
shpchp 87148 0
pciehp 83948 0
pci_hotplug 30640 2 shpchp,pciehp
ati_agp 8332 1
agpgart 31784 1 ati_agp
8139too 23936 0
mii 4864 2 8139cp,8139too
yenta_socket 19200 0
pcmcia_core 63028 2 ds,yenta_socket
capability 4872 0
commoncap 7168 1 capability
psmouse 17800 0
ide_cd 38176 0
cdrom 35740 1 ide_cd
ext3 109544 1
jbd 54552 1 ext3
ide_generic 1664 0
ide_disk 16768 3
atiixp 8472 1
ide_core 125028 4 ide_cd,ide_generic,ide_disk,atiixp
unix 26036 292
font 8576 0
vesafb 6688 0
cfbcopyarea 3840 1 vesafb
cfbimgblt 3200 1 vesafb
cfbfillrect 3712 1 vesafb

lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5833 (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5838
0000:00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4347 (rev 01)
0000:00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4348 (rev 01)
0000:00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4345 (rev 01)
0000:00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SMBus (rev 1a)
0000:00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4349
0000:00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434c
0000:00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4342
0000:00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434d (rev 01)
0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5835
0000:02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys, A Division of Cisco Systems [AirConn] INPROCOMM IPN 2220 Wireless LAN Adapter (rev 01)
0000:02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:02:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)

dmesg
005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000d0000 - 00000000000d8000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000bf70000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000bf70000 - 000000000bf7b000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000bf7b000 - 000000000bf80000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000000bf80000 - 000000000c000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 000000001bf80000 - 000000001c000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
191MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f6950
On node 0 totalpages: 49008
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 44912 pages, LIFO batch:10
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f69b0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x0bf773e8
ACPI: FADT (v001 COMPAL ELW80 0x06040000 ATI 0x00000003) @ 0x0bf7af24
ACPI: MADT (v001 PTLTD APIC 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x0bf7af98
ACPI: SSDT (v001 PmRef CpuPm 0x00003000 INTL 0x20030224) @ 0x0bf77418
ACPI: DSDT (v001 COMPAL ELW80 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x8008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:3 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Processor #1 15:3 APIC version 20
WARNING: NR_CPUS limit of 1 reached. Processor ignored.
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: Assigned apic_id 2
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 high edge)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 21 low level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order 10: 8192 bytes)
Detected 3004.881 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 186940k/196032k available (1337k kernel code, 8464k reserved, 732k data, 204k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 5898.24 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
using mwait in idle threads.
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 1024K
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 04
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-16, 2-17, 2-18, 2-19, 2-20, 2-22, 2-23 not connected.
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 3000.0051 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 200.0003 MHz.
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (ungzip failed); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 4216k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd768, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI-0352: *** Error: Looking up [Z00B] in namespace, AE_NOT_FOUND
search_node c12f11e0 start_node c12f11e0 return_node 00000000
ACPI-1133: *** Error: [NULL NAME], AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:14.1
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:14.4
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 6)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f69f0
PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xb493, dseg 0x400
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x1080-0x1080 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0xfe00-0xfe01 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x40b-0x40b has been reserved
pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x4d6-0x4d6 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0xc00-0xc01 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0xc14-0xc14 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0xc50-0xc51 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0xc52-0xc52 has been reserved
PnPBIOS: 16 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 16 recorded by driver
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:14.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:14.6[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
number of MP IRQ sources: 16.
number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.
testing the IO APIC.......................
IO APIC #2......
.... register #00: 02000000
....... : physical APIC id: 02
....... : Delivery Type: 0
....... : LTS : 0
.... register #01: 00170011
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : PRQ implemented: 0
....... : IO APIC version: 0011
.... register #02: 02000000
....... : arbitration: 02
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
02 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31
03 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41
04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
05 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
09 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71
0a 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
0b 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
0d 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99
0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1
10 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B9
11 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C1
12 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C9
13 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B1
14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
15 001 01 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 A9
16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
Using vector-based indexing
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ0 -> 0:2
IRQ1 -> 0:1
IRQ3 -> 0:3
IRQ4 -> 0:4
IRQ5 -> 0:5
IRQ6 -> 0:6
IRQ7 -> 0:7
IRQ8 -> 0:8
IRQ9 -> 0:9
IRQ10 -> 0:10
IRQ11 -> 0:11
IRQ12 -> 0:12
IRQ13 -> 0:13
IRQ14 -> 0:14
IRQ15 -> 0:15
IRQ185 -> 0:16
IRQ193 -> 0:17
IRQ201 -> 0:18
IRQ177 -> 0:19
IRQ169 -> 0:21
.................................... done.
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 54 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:14.6[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 8
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly.
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 4216 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed
vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ATIIXP: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ATIIXP: chipset revision 0
ATIIXP: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x8070-0x8077, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x8078-0x807f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
hda: TOSHIBA MK4025GAS, ATA DISK drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB), CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 >
hdc: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4080N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: hda1: orphan cleanup on readonly fs
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 2731611
EXT3-fs: hda1: 1 orphan inode deleted
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 1959888k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Capability LSM initialized
Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:04.0 [1025:0065]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:02:04.0, mfunc 0x00111c12, devctl 0x44
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0020, PCI irq 185
Socket status: 30000006
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xa000, 00:02:3f:09:da:14, IRQ 177
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected Ati IGP9100/M chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 149M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 32M @ 0xea000000
cpci_hotplug: CompactPCI Hot Plug Core version: 0.2
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4
shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: PCI device 1002:4347 (ATI Technologies Inc)
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 177, pci mem cc9ea000
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: PCI device 1002:4348 (ATI Technologies Inc)
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: irq 177, pci mem cc9ec000
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
usb 1-3: new low speed USB device using address 2
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [1241:1166] on usb-0000:00:13.0-3
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: PCI device 1002:4345 (ATI Technologies Inc)
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: irq 177, pci mem cc9ee000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
usb 1-3: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 1-3: new low speed USB device using address 3
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [1241:1166] on usb-0000:00:13.0-3
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:14.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
atiixp: codec reset timeout
ATI IXP AC97 controller: probe of 0000:00:14.5 failed with error -13
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
input: PC Speaker
irda_init()
NET: Registered protocol family 23
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding 0xc68-0xc6f 0xcd0-0xcd7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02cc960(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Thanks again

Did you do aptitude install alsa-utils? These are the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture utilities for interfacing with sound cards.

Oh, and just for the record, when you solve one issue you generally should start a new thread for the next issue. Makes it easier for people to answer the second, third, etc questions if there's a new thread. A lot of people who know how to solve your sound problem might skip over this thread because it is about installation.