nidia soundcard not workingForum: Multimedia Topic: nidia soundcard not working started by: bwh1969 Posted by bwh1969 on July 19 2006,16:02
DSL 3.0 doesn't seem to recognize my vVvida onboard sound card. I see some DSL extensions for graphics... anything for sound? During boot script... I get an unknown device warning for my nVidia sound. No huge deal... I can use... gasp... windows or knoppix. I prefer DSL... just because:-)
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 19 2006,16:40
Does it output any sound though?You could try alsa. Also, what chipset does it use? Posted by bwh1969 on July 19 2006,22:30
My MB manual says it has the nvidia nForce2 Ultra +MCPS chipset. The sound device is C-Media 3-D audio, although the error of "unknown device" is with nVidia. I don't get sound and when I launch XMMS and I try to open an MP3 file, I get an error that my soundcard "probably" isn't configured.
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 19 2006,23:10
It appears ALSA could support your C-Media chipset. I would say to try it.To find out the exact model, you could do a lspci -v Posted by bwh1969 on Aug. 29 2006,14:41
I tried the ALSA entry under testing. It still doesn't work. I did the lspci -v, but I got such a large readout in aterm. I could not figure out how to page "up" through the readout. If you coudl help me figure out how to either pause the readout until I check through it, or how to page back, that would be great.Update- I did get it to work by seeing how knoppix linux sees my C-media card, b/c it does work there. It sees it as an INTEL8x0 and it does work with the ALSA...dsl app. I don't get full funtionality and only the "PCM wave volume" under dMix makes it work at it seems to be either on or off regarless of the setting as long as it isn't "0," with no means of adjusting it w/o using the speaker control knob. Also, the only way I could keep myself from being completley annoyed on every boot [by using root to type modprobe snd-intel8x0;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss] every time was to write a script, and add it to the /opt/bootlocal.sh BUT it works! Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Aug. 30 2006,02:53
You could use
Use pageup/down to navigate Posted by fozner on Sep. 04 2006,03:35
I couldn't get sound to work either until I haphazardly stumbled upon the alsaconf and sndconfig tools from the debian apt-get repository. There should be a line added to the alsa description in MyDSL that says something like "if this script doesn't work, you might have better luck with alsaconf, or if that doesn't work, try removing the alsa packages and using sndconfig to automatically set up OSS drivers."
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