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SprEA
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 Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 7:28 pm Post subject: On-Board soundcard without Linux driver |
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I have a on-board soundcard, my motherboard is a DFI LanParty PRO875B. I can't find any sound drivers that actually work. My friend told me to get "Alsa" so I ran a "emerge alsa". But now that I have it I don't know hos to use it.
So my question is: Does anyone know of some drivers that work or have some tips for my quest to get sound  |
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which onboard sound controller do you have?
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SprEA
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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That's exactly what I don't know. When I used Windows 2k I installed some drivers made by "SoundMAX". I don't know if that helps.
On the www.dfi.com page it only says "6-1 sound", no names or such. |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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| do 'lspci' and find out what linux thinks of your sound card. and then compile kernel with proper drivers. should do it. |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Should I run a command called ispci? Because I don't have that command. |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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the command is
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| bash: lspci: Command not found. |
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first u must
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SprEA
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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"Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)".
That's what it said about my audio card. |
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You should be able to do an ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" emerge alsa-driver alsa-utils and then run alsa-conf. This will set up your /etc/modules.d/alsa file and load the sound modules. Then run alsamixer to unmute your card and set the volumes.
rc-update add alsasound default will make the alsasound init script to be loaded on each boot. For more info, refer to the Gentoo Alsa guide...which I for whatever the reason cannot find on the gentoo.org website. 
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SprEA
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Okey, I'm very new at linux. What do I have to write after "alsamixer" to unmute? |
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0000:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA techologies, Inc. vt8233/A8235/8237 AC97 Audio controller (rev 50)
this is the sound card
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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| What "Tigern" is trying to tell you is that he needs some help installing he's sound card as well. |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Does anyone know how to unmute in alsamixer? I've runned "alsamixer --help" but I don't understand anything. |
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In alsamixer, highlight the channel you want to unmute and press the M key on your keyboard and the "MM" characters at the top of the slider should disappear, indicating it is not muted anymore. It's a good bet to start unmuting the Master and PCM channels.
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SprEA
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:58 am Post subject: |
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| Does alsamixer have an gui? |
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SprEA
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:31 am Post subject: |
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Okey, I've followed the guide all the way down to when I'm supposed to run "amixer". That's when I get this error: "amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device".
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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does anyone know which driver i should use?
| Code: | | lspci | grep -i audio |
| Code: | 0000:00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2)
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
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My nforce2 works well using the snd-intel8x0 driver, as configured by running alsaconf. Good sound quality and very stable.
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