Dell Inspiron....sound troubles

UclaBob · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 83

Alrite....newbie type question

I have a Dell Inspirion 4150, laptop with a Cirrus Logic CS4205
video controller....however, this isn't supported...but I looked around and found that the solution is to load the Intel ICH (i8xx) kernel module...

So I went through and recompiled the kernel modules, no problem...however, I don't know how to load the module and get sound...

Do I still need to activate the rest of the ALSA stuff?

Help me please

Bob

Peruna · n00b Joined: 28 Oct 2002 Posts: 3

I have also Inspiron 4150 and with me newest alsa-drivers causes some scratces when I watch movies etc.
But those drivers that you have compiled as kernel module works with me perfectly. So don't use ALSA at all. Just put modulename (i810_audio) to /etc/modules.autoload and boot (or don't boot but write modprobe i810_audio).
If you don't have any mixers then you might try out aumix...
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koala · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2002 9:52 pm Post subject:

I have a 2650 and also found out that the OSS modules (i810_audio) works better than ALSA. Doing a cat /proc/i8k while using alsa audio caused sound problems, which do not happen with OSS