Um I had a similar problem with my soundcard, there was a conflict with the onboard sound and the card (both which came with the computer), and in the end since if you turned off the onboard sound the sound card turned off as well I ended up having to turn of the non-onboard sound and use the onboard sound, which means when I boot from windows to linux I have to swap the little sound pluggy-in thing around... pain in the ass. btw first port of call for drivers I would have to say is ALSA (advanced linux sound architecture) site. you may have something similar let me know if you find anything tho :D --Slosh
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 8:04 PM Subject: RH8 scanner update and Sound driver question > Okay, thanks to Chris S pointing me to http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/ I > spent quite some time reading up about scanner support for linux. I > downloaded about 5 files I reckoned I'd need and went to see my friend. I > gave him a new install of RH8 and proceeded to check out the KDE menus, > only to discover that not only was the scanner programme installed but it > was working bloody perfectly with the scanner (which wasn't specifically > listed as supported by the documentation) without one bit of tweaking > required. > > Needless to say I felt a bit ripped off by this. What happened to the good > old days when peripherals took near on a week to get working properly? > > However, I was pleased to see that the winmodem and onboard sound were not > working. I didn't expect the winmodem to go anyway but the onboard sound > surprised me. There were two issues with the sound. There are no "event > sounds". A CD player in KDE recognises and starts to play it an inserted > CD but also no sound (yes it works under windaz). I tried to open the > mixer but I got an error message that suggested the permissions of > /dev/mixer may not allow the mixer to run. "chmod 777 /dev/mixer" makes no > difference to this error. > > "lspci -vv" reveals a Multimedia Audio Controller: Intel Corp, 82801DB > AC'97 Audio (rev 01). The graphical audio device detects something similar > but I can't remember whether it was identical. Do I try a kernel compile > or will I have to search out a special driver? I don't mind either > method. After I post this I'm going to do a Google for some help. > > As for the modem, I'm currently downloading all of > http://www.sfu.ca/~cth/ltmodem/dists/redhat/ to file away for future use. > > The last winmodem I installed (about 2 months ago) was a connexant > chipset. The connexant website was outstandingly helpful and the driver > rpm they provided worked perfectly. Kudos to them. Brickbat to those twats > at lucent, now known as "Agere". > > Cheers, > Michael. >
