Make sure you have main, contrib and non-free in your /etc/apt/sources.list.

Like above and for each deb line you have.

so the apt-get would look something like this?


apt-get install firmware-linux deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/squeeze main contrib non-free

once I've downloaded the driver, how do i install it? I know windows installs the drivers by going through device manager.

No, the line 62chevy told you is meant to be added to your /etc/apt/sources.list. You actually don't have to add the whole line since you probably have the server already, just add contrib and non-free at the end of each server line, after main. Then execute

It should install both, the free and the non-free firmware.

Note that it doesn't ensure the sound card will work. You still should install the alsa-driver tarball as I suggested before, in post #5. If the guide is correct, it should work with your sound card. In order to install the alsa-driver tarball, you should follow these steps:

1) Download the tarball from here: ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/drive...1.0.25.tar.bz2 and save it in your user directory.

2) Uncompress it with:

3) cd into it.

4) Execute the following commands:

After that, execute alsamixer and make sure that all the channels are unmute and adjusted at a proper volume. Restart, and hopefully it will work.

ok. I input the tar -xjvf alsa-driver-1.0.25.tar.bz2 and it's been 20 minutes so far and nothing has popped up since. if I downloaded it, it would be in the archive manager do I need to navigate there or anything to be able to decompress it?

Yes, you need to navigate into the directory containing the driver with the cd command. Something like:

okay. navigated there and am now trying the tar -xjv alsa-driver-1.0.25.tar.bz2 command. I'm doing this in root by the way. so I hope this thing will decompress quickly

so it was taking a while so I guessed it couldn't find it, so I did an ls on the folder to see what all it had and got this.


alsa-driver-1.0.25# ls
acinclude.m4 firewire modules sparc
aclocal.m4 gitcompile parisc support
acore hal2 pci SUPPORTED_KERNELS
alsa-kernel i2c pcmcia synth
aoa include ppc test
arm INSTALL README TODO
CARDS-STATUS install-sh Rules.make toplevel.config
configure isa Rules.make1 toplevel.config.in
configure.in kconfig-vers sh usb
COPYING Makefile snddevices utils
doc Makefile.conf.in snddevices.in version
drivers mips soc version.in
FAQ misc sound WARNING



then saw drivers and did a cd and an ls on that and got this



alsa-driver-1.0.25/drivers# ls
aloop.c Makefile mts64.patch pcsp serial-u16550.c
dummy.c mpu401 opl3 portman2x4.patch virmidi.c
Kconfig mtpav.c opl4 serialmidi.c vx



why isn't the tar -xjvf alsa-driver-1.0.25.tar.bz2 command not working for decompressing it?

When I try to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list, I tried to navigate to it, it said not a directory.


/etc/apt# ls
apt.conf.d preferences.d sources.list sources.list.d trusted.gpg
listchanges.conf secring.gpg sources.list~ trustdb.gpg trusted.gpg.d
:/etc/apt# cd /etc/apt/sources.list
bash: cd: /etc/apt/sources.list: Not a directory


that was the result

It seems you already decompressed it somehow, since you can enter the directory alsa-driver-1.0.25 from the command line. BTW, the commands I gave you above are meant to be executed inside this directory, not inside the "drivers" directory or any other.

As for your sources.list file, it is a text file, not a directory, so you can't cd into it; that's why you get that error. I would suggest to back it up before attempting to edit it, just in case. If you want a GUI editor, you can launch gedit as root.

ok, awesome. so just to make sure I understand this correctly. I will do your commands from above under the /Desktop/alsa-driver-1.0.25 directory?

Yes, you must be inside the alsa-driver-1.0.25 directory in order to compile it.

ok. so here's where I'm located and I starred off with the ./configure and I got this.



Desktop/alsa-driver-1.0.25# ./configure
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: in `/home/ethan/Desktop/alsa-driver-1.0.25':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details

Install the package build-essential with apt-get and retry to run the configure script.

ok, so I just went through the folder on my desktop called alsa-drivers-1.0.25 and this was just after I did the ./configure again and i saw that in shell it said something about the configure.log. so I went there and underneath the section core tests, it shows the result as I posted earlier in the config.log why is that?