On Saturday 14 February 2004 14:36, Philip J Scott wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson > Sent: 14 February 2004 13:55 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 > sound card > > On Saturday 14 February 2004 13:20, Philip J Scott wrote: > > Well I have run alsaconf, I have also followed advice on mixer > > settings. Everything checks out. > > The one thing thats not been tried is the oss But as a novicxe i > > do not know what this is, I assume it is alternative drivers. I > > followed the link to the alsa project but when I am there it is > > too confusing and I dont know what i am supposed to be looking > > for and even if I did I dont know how to install anything not got > > that far yet. > > I did get a mail advising me to change the /etc/modules.conf > > but how and where I havent a clue. To anyone out there who can > > help this is my last hurdle if I can get my sound working I can > > use linux and start to learn. It is only sound in normal things > > I have glorious sound with the cd player the rest is dead. > > Thanks in advance...Philip > > Philip, open up Mandrake Control Center > Hardware and HardDrake. > Find your soundcard, and tell us what it says about it. It should > also tell you which driver it is using. The Run Config Tool should > give you something similar to the attached jpg. The > Troubleshooting button gives you tests that you can run from a root > console. If there are alternative drivers they will be in the > drop-down list. Run those tests, and give us the results. > > Anne > -- > Registered Linux User No.293302 > Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? > > Hve done all that I think, the sound card is onboard via vt8233 and > the driver in use is > snd-via82xx > but the other people who have solved the same problem have done it > via the alsa project with oss drivers but I do not know what to do.
I think that's the also driver - someone will correct me if I'm wrong. Did you try the test in the Troubleshooting section? Please copy and paste the output from those commands. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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