I got three option for sound and none work. I tried raising volume and toggling mute and no luck. Two sound cards have the same IRQ (SIS and SB) which I think that is the issue.

Card: SIS S17012
Chip: Realtek Alc655 Rev.0

Card: Logitech USB Headset
Chip: USB Mixer

Card: SB Audigty 2
Chip: Sigmatel STAC9759 , 51

It's weird that Linux just isn't plug and play like Windows and Mac. Btw Audigty 2 worked on XP and headset worked on Vista PC. I'm not sure if the SIS sound card works at all, I didn't have all the motherboard drivers when I ran XP on it. It's Foxconn motherboard, yeah I cut corners with my first computer build.

The Audigy 2 is probably not yet supported if the info on the alsa wiki is up-to-date:
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The card with Realtek Alc655 Rev.0 Chip, is the one I would try to get working. Use alsaconf and alsamixer from terminal. In alsamixer you can switch between sound cards. Maybe it helps.

A alternative to the ALSA driver are OSS4 drivers (
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). But the support of OSS4 for USB audio devices is rather bad.

alsaconf doesn't work as it was removed from Debian Squeeze. There seems to be many versions of OSS4, do you know which one I should install and the command to type in Terminal?

Here is the list of them:


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I installed OSS like described here:
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I had issues with the OSS packages from the Debian Wheezy repo. DKMS didn't built the kernel modules.

I got an error when trying to uninstall ALSA.

Also after downloading the OSS tar.bz2 file I got errors. Terminal thinks the file is messed up. I don't have the log as I tried to paste it and terminal got cleared __{{emoticon}}__

I even tried a older version of oss but got the same error.

I was thinking about changing the file from tar.bz2 to .deb using a Windows computer to change it. Perhaps Debian Testing has issues with tar.bz2? Or since I download it in Iceweasel with private browsing that was the issue?

thanks for testing the guide. I have now tested it on a fresh antiX Beta 13 live system.

I updated my guide. You have to only remove alsa-base. Maybe it is not even necessary to remove it.

And I forgot to add gcc as package which has to be installed. you can use wget to download the OSS tar.bz2 archive: Afterwards I would open the archive with Xarchiver to extract it. Then cd into the directory: If you have any ALSA sound drivers loaded, you will get following output at the end:

[...]
Error: Module snd_seq_device is in use by: snd_rawmidi
Error: Module snd_timer is in use by: snd_pcm
Failed to disable conflicting sound drivers
Reboot and try running soundon again

Also check that you have not compiled sound support statically
into the kernel.
make: *** [install] Fehler 50

if you get this message, just reboot. Then execute"ossxmix" to open the mixer program. With osstest you can test the sound. Or use soundon as root to see if the OSS module is loaded.

For configuring Alsa, there is a handy tool called Alsacap available here:


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HardwareGuru

Can we see your IRQs pls and inxi info for sound Can you do screenshots and upload them somewhere? EDIT of alsamixer in a terminal, press F6 to get to choose a different device pls
FWIW press the M key to mute or unmute outputs, press the space to activate or disable inputs for mic