On Wednesday 05 March 2003 06:00 pm, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
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> > > For instance, since he has an integrated AC97 sound card, Mandrake
> > > won't let his SB Live! work properly that has worked in every other
> > > GNU/Linux distro he has tried (including 8.2).
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> > what exactly are you referring to here? Or could you give me a bug
> > number?
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> For the first time in 6 years I am unable to get my sound card running!
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> At this point I believe it is a weakness in the detection and installation
> software of rc1. The exact same hardware was easily setup when I installed
> MDK 8.2.
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> When the sound card was first detected during the initial install it would
> work when I logged on as root but not as user. "Ah, ha!", you say,
> "permission problems". That's what I thought. So, I added myself to the
> audio group. No joy. Then I went to /dev/asound and made everything
> root:audio. No joy. I don't want to make the the /dev/asound jerry:audio,
> that's no solution.
>
> During my examination of the sound situation I noticed that the kmixer was
> showning AC97 components. That is odd, because I have AC97 sound (which is
> on my mobo) turned off in the bios. It looks like the autodection is
> adding AC97 (including modules!) regardless of what sound card I choose
> from the configure button of the Hardware listing in MCC.
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> Leon Brooks, yes, the one that's here too, suggested the good idea of
> trying switching to OSS from ALSA (or vice versa), but alas it seems the
> fellow who wrote this had already tried that.
>
> I can have him contact you if you'd like certain details... he isn't on
> this list due to its high traffic.
>
> -Tim
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To be honest I just had this problem with my last install also. In my case I
forgot the sblive was even in the box. I did however notice that even though
I had the on-board sound shut off in the bios it was installed as the default
sound. In my case since the sound blaster cards are all such garbage I just
removed the card. To be honest they cause problems with almost every piece of
hardware I've ever seen. I run a computer store so I have seen this quite
often even with windows. All the creative labs cards accept for the older isa
ones have problems and the isa ones don't sound nearly as good.
On a side note I also installed this onto a nforce2 board with on-board sound.
I also have a Hercules game fortissimo III 7.1 surround card and the nforce2
sound is shut off in the bios. It was all detected properly accept for the
radeon 9700 which was detected as a radeon 8500. I simply put an older radeon
8500 in and it ran like it was supposed to.
I reported the 9700 issue but have not even received any response from that
bug.
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