On Sunday 18 November 2001 13:49, Arthur Hagen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Saturday, November 17, 2001 01:04 EST (GMT+5) > > > Don't know if this is the right place. > > Here is a printout of lspci -vvx on my HP 8670C computer. > > 600 MHZ Pentium III > > Has an added TV card, 70 GBytes of hard drives and 348 MBytes > > of RAM, and > > a new CDR/RW drive > > SuSE Linux 7.3 cannot detect my soundcard or modem, otherwise is > > fantastic. > > The HP Pavilion 8670C came with a Conexant/Rockwell Riptide SoftK56 > winmodem/soundcard combination card, slightly modified for HP by bean > counters.
I wonder if it is anything like my HP Pavillion 8754C, which seemed to have a Winmodem card (which I ripped out, yuck!), but seems to also have and use an internal Intel 810 integrated chipset (with AC97 codec) on the motherboard, which can actually produce sound (still working! without modem card). Both Windows-Me (cringe!) and Mandrake 8.0 were able to produce some sounds and play CDs and/or .mp3, etc. I am currently wrestling with a bunch of upgrades (moving to Mandrake 8.1 + some cooker updates), and I'm also trying to get alsa-0.9.0beta9 (needed by some music software I want to run) working. The alsa drivers install on bootup, and the system now seems to be outputting "something" from aplay (but I don't hear anything!? even with mixer turned back up!). Haven't attacked the problems seriously, though. Soon, hopefully. Another of my systems has a PCI-AWE64, and that runs the 0.9.0 alsa drivers OK. That system is beeping and squawking like it should. Haven't tried any (soft) synth stuff yet, though. Soon, but that 200MHz Pentium is slow. The HP has 800 MHz, so I would prefer to use it for sound experimentation, as soon as the i810 works fully. I might end up moving the AWE64 to the HP, but then I'll never know if the i810 could actually be made to work, would i? Is anyone out there successfully using i810 sound, w. Mandrake, w. alsa 0.9.0? > You may be able to get the winmodem (which isn't a real modem, but a sound > card function) to work with linmodem drivers, however I wouldn't recommend > it, as it will use heavy CPU time to do all the conversion. Conexant > promises Linux drivers for the modem part by the end of the year, but I > wouldn't hold my breath. I suspect they "cheat" with the Winmodems, by using a sound chip/card to generate modem tones, and piping them through an incredibly cheap phone I/F. I can't imagine why anyone would want to work that hard (and screw things up!?) to save $10 or $20?!? I would ditch the Winmodem altogether. Setup a home LAN and use ADSL or cable-modem firewall/router. That's becoming reasonably cheap and available? or use another machine as gateway/proxy. > The sound card part isn't supported by the Alsa project drivers, as far as > I can tell. There are OSS drivers available for Riptide, though, but they > cost more than the whole modem/soundcard combo does ($20 for the Linux > driver plus $15 for the Riptide low-level driver - available at <URL: > http://www.opensound.com >). My advice is to invest $20 or so on a cheap > but better supported sound card, and get an external or internal > non-Winmodem if you can't get linmodem drivers to work satisfactory. Hmm, I notice that the hardware compatibility table for i810 is white (not green, grey, or red). What does that mean? No info? or does that mean "guaranteed not to work" (I thought that was red?)? BTW, I was wondering about the alsa 0.5.x and 0.9.0 backwards compatibility? With the newly installed 0.9.0 driver and tools, I tried to rebuild a bunch of packages that use alsa, and most of them failed, complaining about missing symbols, methods, constants, etc. Is there no backwards compatibility? Does one have to rewrite the 0.5.x interfaces to 0.9.0 specs? The impression I get is that the only backwards compatibility (such as it is) is provided by the alsa-oss emulation? In other words, xmms and aplay etc. work by using their oss output plugins, which get routed via alsa-oss (or should that be oss-alsa? as in alsa-dummy?) to the new 0.9.0 alsa driver. Whew! I admit that I'm confused about that, and I haven't found anything that explains that. I've messed around with computers a long time (some embedded systems, office automation design, etc.) and I have to say that sound on Linux is not that easy. I guess my current problems are "self-inflicted", since I want to get at newer software requiring 0.9.0 alsa. However, previous "stock" installs of Mandrake on various platforms have also been hit/miss viz. sound. Sometimes (I'm shocked!) it works. Usually, I have to wrestle with it. -- Juhan Leemet Logicognosis, Inc. _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
