Hi there. I installed Debian Etch on my acer 5102wlmi notebook yesterday, in a temporary partition (I already had Ubuntu installed, and wanted to give Debian a try because of Ubuntu' s insanely slow booting process). So, after booting, I let the system update the kernel and reboot. Working fine. When I tested the sound system, suprise! It works! For the first time in months I can record sound on my laptop. I was able to use alsamixer , and record sound from both the built-in mic and the external mic I have. Since my Ubuntu Gutsy installation was a bit too slow and misconfigured, I wiped it out, created a larger partition for Debian, and installed it with the netinst disc. But now, sound recording doesn' t work anymore. Alsamixer fails giving the message "alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: Invalid argument" , and amixer fails too. Any clues? I'm going to get the alsa source and try compiling it myself, now. TIA,
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