On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Peter and Jesse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> See http://wiki.gnewsense.org/ForumMain/SoudGNewSense2. > Please do not recommend the installation of non-free software. Avoiding updates is also unwise. Brian > > On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 10:33 -0700, Peter and Jesse wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I've also lost my sound. I'm using a GA-K8VM800M (Rev 1.x) with an > > > integrated Realtek ALC655 Audio AC'97 Codec. Aparently, the Realtek > > > ALC655 depends on some non-free stuff. What to do? Should I buy a > sound > > > card listed here: http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/soundcards ? How do > I > > > know that it will work without linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24? Is anyone > on > > > this list using a sound card that is still working in gNS 2.0? > > > > > > I'll appreciate any help I can get. > > > > > > Eric... > > > > Until we figure this out, I suggest that folks don't go out and buy new > > hardware. It seems that free drivers have been deleted as well as > > nonfree drivers. I do have a sound card listed in the FSF site that > > uses the snd-intel8x0 driver, which is contained in the > > linux-ubuntu-modules package > > ( > http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/i386/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-16-386/filelist > ). > > As Brian said, someone needs to go through this package and take out > > all the nonfree drivers before we can put it back in the repository. > > It's too bad this just came out now. A lot of new folks who just found > > out about gNewSense through the 2.0 release are going to get turned off > > by not having sound. > > Peter Stevenson > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gNewSense-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users >
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