I have a Compaq Presario Laptop 1700T which I just installed Antix 13.2 (stable) with the following sound controller:
Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1988 Allegro-1 (rev 12)
There is no sound. Clicking on Control Centre /Hadware/Test Sound & Adjust Mixer just flashes (opens up a console and quickly closes it). So I was doing a little research and someone mentioned a sound utility called alsaconf. I tried running it as root and it responded: bash:alsaconf: command not found.
I tried alsamixer as root at console :cannot open mixer: No such file or directory and tried the console version amixer and it returned: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory
According to searching on google, the ESS Technology ES1988 Allegro-1 audio controller is also called an Maestro-3 so I did a dmesg to see if it got loaded during boot.
dmesg | grep maestro shows these lines:
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[ 9.705185] snd_maestro3 0000:00:0a.0: found PCI INT A -> IRQ 5
[ 9.705211] snd_maestro3 0000:00:0a.0: sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:07.2
[ 9.713234] snd_maestro3: probe of 0000:00:0a.0 failed with error -2
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Module Size Used by
acpi_cpufreq 5557 0
mperf 866 1 acpi_cpufreq
processor 23656 1 acpi_cpufreq
thermal_sys 10455 1 processor
speedstep_lib 2383 0
cpufreq_stats 2620 0
cpufreq_conservative 3558 0
cpufreq_powersave 575 0
parport_pc 23843 1
ppdev 4112 0
lp 6135 0
parport 21875 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
uinput 5148 1
af_packet 18696 6
dm_crypt 10775 0
arc4 1397 2
rt2800usb 11940 0
rt2x00usb 6269 1 rt2800usb
rt2800lib 38735 1 rt2800usb
rt2x00lib 25802 3 rt2x00usb,rt2800lib,rt2800usb
mac80211 189998 3 rt2x00lib,rt2x00usb,rt2800lib
cfg80211 122014 2 mac80211,rt2x00lib
rfkill 10550 2 cfg80211
snd_maestro3 11795 0
crc_ccitt 1004 1 rt2800lib
snd_ac97_codec 78474 1 snd_maestro3
snd_pcm 50454 2 snd_ac97_codec,snd_maestro3
pcmcia 24747 0
joydev 6549 0
snd_page_alloc 5015 1 snd_pcm
intel_agp 7584 1
intel_gtt 10365 1 intel_agp
yenta_socket 15722 0
pcmcia_rsrc 5938 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 8459 3 pcmcia,pcmcia_rsrc,yenta_socket
mac_hid 2214 0
snd_seq 34663 0
snd_seq_device 3890 1 snd_seq
snd_timer 12034 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
agpgart 18082 2 intel_agp,intel_gtt
snd 36700 6 snd_ac97_codec,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_maestro3,snd_seq_device
evdev 6643 5
i2c_piix4 6745 0
soundcore 3447 1 snd
ac97_bus 687 1 snd_ac97_codec
shpchp 18784 0
pci_hotplug 17120 1 shpchp
microcode 8368 0
psmouse 52120 0
pcspkr 1269 0
serio_raw 3181 0
btrfs 547916 0
zlib_deflate 15483 1 btrfs
dm_mod 50861 1 dm_crypt
tulip 37455 0