I have installed to a HD on an older desktop and all goes well except I have no sound. When I select 'Adjust Mixer', a rox? terminal flashes and disappears. If I choose to 'Configure Sound System', I am advised that no supported card was found........my card is ESS ES 1988 Allegro-1.

I have Ubuntu 10.10 and Peppermint Two on this PC and they find the card OK

Any suggestions as to the best way to proceed????

When I tried"adjust mixer", alsamixer came up as it should. It you would like to test whether alsamixer is working properly, in a terminal type:

alsamixer

then it should come up and you can adjust levels.

I don't know why your card is not being picked up, sorry. Hopefully someone else will be able to help.

Pedro

.....even in a terminal, Alsamixer just flashes and disappears. __{{emoticon}}__

alsamixer is most likely not showing due to a improper sound configuration. The easiest way to try to resolve this is by opening thunar as root user in the /etc/modprobe.d directory and removing alsa-base*.

menu --> run
type:"thunar /etc/modprobe.d"
check off"run as root" and press ok
type: your root password and press ok
find the files that begin with alsa-base and delete them
close thunar and reboot

Once you have rebooted, open terminal and check if alsamixer will run
menu --> run
type: roxterm
check off"run as root" and press ok
type: your root password and press ok
type: alsamixer

if alsamixer apears then you should be ok, if not check it new alsa-base* files were made, if not reboot and remove all grub cheat codes.

I got to the bottom line of your thread and the alsa-base files were not made.

I don't know what you mean by grub cheat codes, but, if the expresion refers to the bottom line in the grub boot screen, I removed those to have the boot process freeze.

ok, sorry for that.
you were right by removing what was on the bottom line of the grub boot screen, although I was incorrect in my post. I had forgot to mention to not remove the"root=" portion of the line.

Thanks Dave, I eventually worked that out and now have the situation where the alsa-base* files are missing and, of course, the alsamixer doesn't show.

I would say then that you do not have the proper drivers added for your sound card, so the system cannot probe the card. Could you post the output of inxi -F so we can see what you have for a sound card and a driver ( if any )

That makes sense, this line shows in 'inxi -F'

audio: card ESS 1988 Allegro-1 driver mpu-401 UART port 1000 bus-id 01:05.0

Yes looks as though you have the incorrect driver loading,

Refer to
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://wiki.debian.org/snd-maestro3"
linktext was:"here"
====================================
, this should get you going

Thanks Mate, appears to be solved, excellent & patient assistance!