Sound Card support

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Sound Card support
started by: Carl@home

Posted by Carl@home on Sep. 14 2006,04:01

I have just installed DSL on my USB. Most everything works find, except I have no sound. Does DSL support sound?
the chipset I have is:
Realtec AC97 Audio

Any help would be appreciated!

Posted by roberts on Sep. 14 2006,05:39

DSL supports OSS sound which works for most systems.
Your system may need the ALSA sound system.
Look for alsadebs.dsl in the System section of the mydsl repository.

Posted by Carl@home on Sep. 14 2006,06:24

I've tried that without success. I found a realtek driver for linux on the web, but I don't know how to install it. Thanks for the input.

Posted by Carl@home on Sep. 15 2006,05:50

xmms tells me that I have the wrong driver or other problem when I try to connect using alsa. However, with OSS xmms connects and the visual graph looks active but no sound. Any idea would be appreciated.

Posted by Module on Feb. 22 2007,18:25

I have some Realtek HD Audio driver, I'm not sure which one it is though, it is inbuilt.

I can't get it to work either.

Can anybody help?

Posted by Jason W on Feb. 27 2007,06:43

I don't have a Realtek soundcard, but try at a root prompt:
# modprobe ac97

and see if it works.

DSL normally loads ancient ISA soundcard drivers automatically, like the sb driver for 8 bit sb cards. And it has the ac97 driver. A shot in the dark, but worth a try.