sound card error

sickasabat · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 8

I Can't get any sound to come out of my laptop.

It's a HP Omnibook 4150.
I'm running Gentoo 2.6.12

lspci says:

Multimedia audio controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicMedia 256AV audio] (rev12)

alsaconf says:

No supported PnP or PCI card found.

No legacy drivers available

if I type in /etc/init.d/alsasound start I get

Loading Alsa modules...
Could not detect custom Alsa settings. Loading all detected alsa drivers
Unable to find any alsa drivers. Have you compiled alsa-drivers correctly?
ERROR: failed to load necessary drivers
Restoring mixer levels .. .
No mixer config in /etc/asound.state, you have to unmut your card!

when I emerge alsa-driver it says

ALSA is already compiled into the kernel
Please check to make sure these options are set correctly
once you have satisfied these options please try mergin this package again

I've trawled through loads of posts to find an answer. So now I ask for help

thank you

speak_see_hear · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:41 am Post subject:

Did you specify your card in your make.conf?
i.e:

sickasabat · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 8

thanks for the reply, sadly I've messed the computer up even worse now. It get's to the lilo boot screen and then hangs. So I have to sort that out first.