Hello,

I've got this situation: I'm setting up the laptop of my brother to use Debian; The laptop is an Compaq Pressario 1245 which is running Debian. The problem is that sound isn't working. The laptop is not connected to internet so this email is send via another computer.

Unfortunately, I don't have a hardware overview of the laptop - however, by searching on the net I found the laptop probably has the ESS 1869 card.
Now, I can use sndconfig successfully; When I select the Soundblaster the sound does work - unfortunately, it doesn't work anymore if the computer has been rebooted, or shutdown.
The big problem is, sndconfig doesn't tell me what it's doing - and to make sound work again, I have to remove the sndconfig settings (stored in /etc/modutils/sndconfig - which is then put in /etc/modules.conf) and reboot to make sndconfig reconfigure successfully

I think the problem has to do with drivers which are started by sndconfig, but not added to the /etc/modules (which is the file where the drivers to load are listed in Debian)
I tried loads of things - I searched the internet for a couple of times, and I found many people have found different settings to work, but so far none of them worked on the laptop

I don't know wether this is helpfull, but here is a copy of the output of lspci :

If you need more logs, just tell me what to post / where to find them...

Thanks for your help,

Joris

Did you already try modconf?

Yes I've looked at it for a few times - but I'm not at all a sound guru - and it *seems* the modules which are used by sndconfig should be loaded allright.

This is /etc/modutils/sndconfig - the only file sndconfig writes which is telling me sonethingThe other file sndconfig writes doesn't seem very helpfull - it's called /etc/sysconfig/soundcard :Sorry I didn't post this before, but I have to copy with floppies so I didn't have time just then.

I hope you can help,

Joris