On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Hogland, Thomas E. wrote:
> Am getting ready to reinstall onto my shiny empty 6G drive in a Compaq > Presario 4840, and would like to avoid the only problem I had last time - > the sound wouldn't work. No playing CD's :-( It auto-recognized the ATI Rage > Pro AGP, the Compaq DVD, everything, but the sound didn't function at all, > only the PC-speaker. > > I tried configuring a custom kernel with SB16 - nothing. Tried using the ESS > driver instead - nothing. No errors, just doesn't work. Try the ALSA drivers. See the documentation that comes with the drivers. I was able to get mine to work but it is not working anymore after I played around with the new kernels. /------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 8469 /------------------------------------------------------------------------------/

