Me again

Me again

[David Barron]

Just to see if it was me doing something wrong I've installed Mandrake 
10 and Alsa, both of which use alsa and neither of which are producing 
any sound in my speakers.
Since oss works, I'd have to say there is a problem in the snd-intel8x0 
that hasn't been resolved since at least 1.0.2.
I've also done some serious searching on google and it doesn't look like 
I'm the only person having a problem.  There are hundreds of hits for 
alsa intel8x0 from people with trouble and no resolution.



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Re: Me again

[Rick Knight]

David Barron wrote:

> Just to see if it was me doing something wrong I've installed Mandrake 
> 10 and Alsa, both of which use alsa and neither of which are producing 
> any sound in my speakers.
> Since oss works, I'd have to say there is a problem in the 
> snd-intel8x0 that hasn't been resolved since at least 1.0.2.
> I've also done some serious searching on google and it doesn't look 
> like I'm the only person having a problem.  There are hundreds of hits 
> for alsa intel8x0 from people with trouble and no resolution.
>
>
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David,

I too have an Intel8x0 (ICH2) on-board sound card. After trying for 
weeks to get it working, I finally just turned it off in bios and 
installed a SoundBlaster Live. Had it working in about 10 minutes.  I 
bought the SoundBlaster for $6.00 plus $3.00 on eBay. If the Intel8x0 
ALSA driver is ever fixed I can simply turn it back on, but I don't 
think that's likely. As someone explained it to me, the Intel8x0 is kind 
of like a winmodem style soundcard and will probably never work 
correctly under ALSA. So, save yourself some headache and maybe some 
gray hair and go buy a SoundBlaster.

Rick Knight
(rick@rlknight.com)



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