<div>2006/9/26, John Dangler <<a href="mailto:jdangler@atlantic.net">jdangler@atlantic.net</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 19:34 -0500, Jeff wrote: > Hi. > I have a Dell PII-400 with a Cirrus logic 4610 PCI sound card. > > I am trying to get sound, but cannot. > > I followed the instructions of about every website from the last time I > put out a request for help on this list, and ended up with a dead end > each time. > > The device manager shows that it recognizes a sound card but there are > no drivers installed. The volume control nor any other sound devices > are not installed either. > > My last attempt was to follow the ALSA website. I got all the way to > the "configure" part, at which time it tells me that there is no > suitable "C" compiler. Below is the output (and SORRY.. this is rather > LONG. After a recent kernel upgrade, I lost all of the sound on my system, and it is still dead. I was told to file a bug report regarding this and did around 10 days ago. (#60660) I haven't seen any progress on it, nor have I heard any news about it, so it may be something that you are also experiencing. </blockquote></div> I have the same problem. The problem with the no suitable "C" compiler might be that ubuntu desktop default install does not contain a build environment. You can install the build environment with "sudo apt-get build-essential"