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I don't know what the hell i'm doing with linux and I ran dist update to try to help with a sound problem that now I thinkmade worse btw. It replaced firefox with iceweasel but looks pretty much the same as I left firefox bookmarks and extensions.

And if anyone knows wtf they are doing heres my current problem.
I get /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device). It is in /dev/dsp and i deleted it and recreated it. It shows up under lspci
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 01)

post a dmesg (using < pre > tags, please)

Linux version 2.4.27-3-386 (pbuilder@dl360-g3) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 Wed Dec 6 00:38:33 UTC 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 00000000000eee00 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000eee00 - 00000000000ef000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000ef000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000eff0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000eff0000 - 000000000f000000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000f000000 - 0000000010000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
239MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 61424
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 57328 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 TOSHIB                                    ) @ 0x000f0090
ACPI: RSDT (v001 TOSHIB 750      0x00970814 TASM 0x04010000) @ 0x0eff0000
ACPI: FADT (v002 TOSHIB 750      0x00970814 TASM 0x04010000) @ 0x0eff0054
ACPI: BOOT (v001 TOSHIB 750      0x00970814 TASM 0x04010000) @ 0x0eff002c
ACPI: DSDT (v001 TOSHIB 1400     0x20020410 MSFT 0x0100000a) @ 0x00000000
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 ro
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1195.122 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 2385.51 BogoMIPS
Memory: 236992k/245696k available (1070k kernel code, 8316k reserved, 458k data, 96k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU                1200MHz stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 1195.1227 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 132.7913 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 1327913, slice: 663956
CPU0<T0:1327904,T1:663936,D:12,S:663956,C:1327913>
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfe5b4, last bus=5
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router ALI [10b9/1533] at 00:07.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:06.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:11.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:11.1
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
COMX: driver version 0.85 (C) 1995-1999 ITConsult-Pro Co. <info@itc.hu>
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 3748 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
Freeing initrd memory: 3748k freed
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 96k freed
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ide: late registration of driver.
ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:04.0
ALI15X3: chipset revision 195
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xeff0-0xeff7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xeff8-0xefff, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: SAMSUNG MP0603H, ATA DISK drive
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
blk: queue cf825b40, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2102, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: 117304992 sectors (60060 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=7301/255/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 >
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding Swap: 722884k swap-space (priority -1)
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
device-mapper: 4.1.1-ioctl (2004-04-07) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:11.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:11.1
Yenta ISA IRQ mask 0x06b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000011
Yenta ISA IRQ mask 0x06b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000007
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x408-0x40f 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
hermes.c: 4 Dec 2002 David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
orinoco.c 0.13d (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
orinoco_cs.c 0.13d (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
eth0: Station identity 001f:0001:0004:0020
eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 4.32
eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth0: MAC address 00:E0:63:50:0E:A1
eth0: Station name "HERMES I"
eth0: ready
eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
eth0: New link status: Connected (0001)
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x02 (Driver version 1.16)
Linux video capture interface: v1.00

i don't see sound anywhere. maybe i don't know enough about linux. should the driver be attaching and echoed in dmesg?

"PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:06.0" seems to be the only ref to the sound card in dmesg.

to avoid rehashing a website into a post i'll just link...

http://www.tux.org/~tbr/sound-debian/

and the worst organized site i've had to deal with:

http://rzr.online.fr/wiki.php?M5451

good luck extracting anything from it!

that said i've never actually dealt with debian and city brew internet isn't allowing me to download docs (i'll keep trying), so maybe i'm way off the mark with this post.

btw iceweasel is "a rebranded build prepared by Debian in order to satisfy a demand from Mozilla that they either drop the Firefox name or comply with terms incompatible with Debian policies."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceweasel

ok, if you're interested in alsa as opposed to vanilla drivers...

a page just describing alsa installation for your specific card!

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/ … le=ali5451

otherwise

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO/index.html

more specifically

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO/x320.html#AEN415

sorry that all i'm doing is pointing at documentation

Try the Gentoo Wiki.

They have freakin awesome docs that are practically OS independent.

Alsa is a bitch to setup with dmix. Good luck with that. All apps that aren't coded for alsa, use this command.

aoss program

Emulates Alsa OSS.

figure it out?

I have it down the the depends are not loading what is needed. I'm really quite new at linux so I think i'm going to reinstall with a little more of a plain setup so I can learn more about installs and configuration.

Thank you for your help