Hi
Just came off re-installing alsa coz I moved to test kernel 2.4 and realised
alsasound was not the soln. And yes desktop is not functional unless sound is
on!!. FYI alsa .5.10 seems to have some fixes for i810. Not much diff audible
though.
Bye
Ashwin
On Friday 29 December 2000 09:20, you wrote:
> Ashwin,
> Thanks for the suggestion. Though it did not work directly it suggested
> steps I should take to make sound work on the i810.
>
> In my case, init.d was in /etc/rc.d.
> When I did /etc/rc.d/init.d/sound stop
> I got an error message (forgot what it was).
>
> In any case I recompiled the kernel to include sound support in the form
> of modules (previously it had been directly compiled in). So soundcore and
> sound modules were automatically loaded. I then did a modprobe snd-card
> intel8x0 and cd /usr/src/alsa-driver-0.5.9d and ./snddevices. But when I
> used alsamixer and aplay there was still no sound.
>
> I therefore did insmod snd-mixer-oss. After that I used kmix to raise
> volumes (alsamixer did not seem to be doing the job).
>
> Now sound works: I can play files (at least .wav and .au, haven't tried
> others) and also the CD. Thanks. I can finally say that my desktop is
> fully functional.
> Philip
>
> Ashwin D wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > >From the initial services disable sound and enable alsasound and try.
> >
> > or /etc/init.d/sound stop
> > followed by
> > /etc/init.d/alsasound start
> >
> > If the above does not work - reboot.
> >
> > Hope this helps
> > Ashwin
>
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