Hi, I'm having problems with my sound on a freshly installed debian box. during startup, I get this error: Starting ALSA sound driver (version number):modprobe: can't locate module snd failed. when KDE loads, I get the folowing error: sound server information message: error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (permission denied) the sound server will continue, using the null output device. and of course, the sound isn't working... I'm starting to get familiar with linux, but I don't know much about modules. can somebody help me solving this problem? I already checked if the user is in the audio-group. this is OK. I don't know what to do next. any help apreciated. Johan

What sound card do you have? Can't remember what file controls the loading of modules in debian, but it will be called something like rc.modules. Have a look through that and see which of the sound modules is trying to be loaded at boot time (ie the one uncommented). Look through the list and try to find a module the matches your card. You can test it as root to see if it loads correctly: # modprobe emu10k1 should load the module for a soundblaster live. To list loaded modules "lsmod", to unload one "rmmod ModuleName"

Oops, sorry, forgot to mention what card... its a ensonic 1370 (in windows, creative soundblaster-drivers are used. I will try these things you mentionned. Johan

hmmm, didn't find a rc.modules I found modules.conf however, but couldn't really find anything about the soundcard. There was 1 line about ALSA, but I don't know what it means.

As root, try: # modprobe es1370 If that works, you can try adding it to your rc.local file (a bit like autoexec.bat under windoze) so it runs on boot. You will have to put the whole path in, ie: /sbin/modprobe es1370

I get this when I do modprobe es1370: modprobe: Can't locate module es1370 Where can I get it?

I think you will need to recompile your kernel and select es1370 to be a module (or you could try compiling support directly into the kernel instead).