[ale] Debian sound part II

[Raylynn Knight]

On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 10:32 -0500, Jay Loden wrote:
> On Saturday 15 January 2005 10:27, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> > Since 7 is usually set aside for the parallel port, try disabling the
> > parallel port in your bios to see if things change.  If they do, but you
> > need the parallel port, then you'll need to shuffle some irqs around me
> > thinks.
> 
> Parallel port is already disabled :(  
> 
> The interrupts listed in /proc/interrupts also appear to change.
> As of right now, it says: 
> 
>   0:   49594130          XT-PIC  timer
>   1:     127016          XT-PIC  i8042
>   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>   6:     923698          XT-PIC  yenta, orinoco_cs
>   8:          4          XT-PIC  rtc
>   9:       7579          XT-PIC  acpi
>  10:          5          XT-PIC  ohci_hcd, yenta
>  12:     806177          XT-PIC  i8042
>  14:      83435          XT-PIC  ide0
>  15:        598          XT-PIC  ide1
> NMI:          0
> ERR:         41
> 
The second column here is a count of the number of interrupts.  So for
instance ide1 is getting many more interrupts than ide0.  The NMI is for
non-maskable interrupts (used for debugging) and ERR is interrupt errors
of which you have had 41.  This sometimes occurs when an interrupt
occurs, but the OS can't identify the device that generated the
interrupt.

> instead.  I've noticed that despite running alsaconf, et al, The install still 
> thinks I have no sound cards.  I'm getting really low on ideas, and I'm 
> tempted to do a reinstall right now, except that I'm really happy with the 
> state of everything else.  I've spent two days on this in IRC and google 
> trying to get help and so far it's been a dry hole. 
> 
Are you sure the card is firmly inserted in the slot?  I've seen
symptoms similar to this when a card has slipped up so as not to be
making complete contact with the slot.