Hey,

I installed Debian sarge a while ago but am still facing 2 problems:

1) I have a 160 GB seagate sata hard drive, but during startup it fails to mount it ( I've added lines to /etc/fstab ). But when I manually mount it later after the startup it works fine. I'm guessing the SCSI modules probably load after the automount process ?

2) I have a C-Media chipset PCI soundcard , which won't show up in the volume control ( I also have an onboard intel soundcard ) or aumix or any of the mixers but lsmod does show me that its modules are loaded. Is it a problem with X or with my sound modules ? But then again, when I force-reload the modules using the alsa script ( /etc/init.d/alsa force-reload ) all the modules are loaded back and I have the soundcard mixer settings being shown in the volume control section etc. I currently use the 2.6.9-2.smp kernel which I downloaded from an unstable apt mirror ( iit-bom ) and I suppose the 2.6 kernels come with the alsa modules.I also tried installing the alsa-base and utils packages separately listed out in apt, but the problem still persists. I want to use my PCI soundcard as the default ( which happens after I force-reload ) but doesn't on startup. Could anyone guide me on this ?

Sorry for such a lenghty post.

Cheers

Abhijeet