On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:10, Floyd rulz! wrote:

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 ?

If the sata drive is not your distro drive then fstab should have a line like so /dev/hdb1 /games reiserfs rw,user,auto

the "auto" makes the mounting automatic. If the sata drive is your distro drive then your driv is already mounted.

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

smp kernel is for symmetrical multiprocessor boards. Most desktops do not use such a beasty. run modconf and remove the oss modules.

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 ?

You need to unmute the channels using alsamixer. And preferably disable the onboard sound in the bios.

Sorry for such a lenghty post.

whenever talking of the hardware list the chipset numbers or the relevant lines from lspci -v. Cmedia has several different chips.

rgds jtd