I have super feeble sound on my Compaq Presario 6024. I have had sound working under both Redhat 7.3, and Slackware 8.1 on the same machine. This time, I'm using Gentoo 1.4 and am trying to use the "ALSA" drivers. I get no errors, but I have to turn the speakers alway the way up to hear feeble sounds from KDE 3.1. I have, of course, been playing with the mixers and "unmuting" - I think everything is set up properly. Or I must be close.
With Slackware 8.1, I had to add some modules to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local script (which seems like an 'autoexec.bat') I had to add "insmod ac97_codec" and "insmod i810_audio" to the rc.local file. In my /etc/rc.d/rc.modules I had to enable the modprobes of "usb-uhic" and "audio". With Gentoo, I have recompiled my kernel (several times), I turned off all the sound support except for "Sound Support" (per the Alsa doc), I also turned on USB-Audio. After each kernel compile, I have re-done an "emerge alsa-driver", per the docs. I know this sounds like a mixer problem, but I ran several of the mixers, and the volume is at 100%. The driver I am using is "intel8x0". I hope that is the right one, since I don't know how to remove them(!). When I run "update-modules", I now get an error that ends with (I think) "...drm/isis.3" Or something like at. It is some kind of kernel error about undefined symbols. I can post the exact message later. I found many occurences of that error in Google. Under slackware, this is what the probe programs revealed: lspci shows a: "00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 05)" dmesg | less shows a: "usb.c: registered new driver audio" "audio.c: v1.0.0:USB Audio Class Driver" pnpdump shows: "#no boards found" cat /proc/dma shows: 4:cascade cat /proc/interrupts shows: "10: XT-PIC usb-uhci" "11: XT-PIC usb-uhci" cat /proc/interrupts shows: 2000-20ff : Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino 2) Chipset AC'97 Audio Controller" 2400-24ff : Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino 2) Chipset AC'97 Audio Controller" Any suggestions?? TIA! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
