NFORCE DRIVER ISSUES

orangeman12 · Apprentice Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 283 Location: Chair

I have the NFORCE 3 and the sound doesn't work after installed the nforce drivers from nvidia website. in the consonsle when I type nvmixer is opens the nvidia sound mixer but i don't know why is doesn't work plz help

thanks
orangeman

ninjabadger · Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:15 pm Post subject:

I use an NForce2 board and it has the AC97 onboard sound which i think (after a quick google) is the same on the NForce3.

I simply added support in the kernel under sound drivers for the

orangeman12 · Apprentice Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 283 Location: Chair

I looked in the kernel and that was all ready there

Gogiel · Guru Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 347

chunderbunny · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:47 pm Post subject:

Basically there are two ways of getting sound on Nforce boards. There is ther ALSA way, and the OSS way. The ALSA way does not involve downloading anything from the nvidia website, you just have to set up ALSA as you would normally using the Gentoo ALSA guide. Note that doing it this way means that you don't get to use nvmixer, you have to use alsamixer instead.

If you want to do it the OSS way then you have to make sure you disable all the ALSA components in your kernel, no ALSA support whatsoever. Then you emerge nforce-audio, which downloads the driver from the nvidia website and sets it up for you. You will have to modprobe nvsound and set up coldplug before it will work (or put nvsound in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.x and set up coldplug)

orangeman12 · Apprentice Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 283 Location: Chair

I have alsa install but that doesn't work thats why I am trying to use nforce
I used

ninjabadger · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:22 pm Post subject:

As chunderbunny youl need to either remove the nvidia drivers or remove alsa, they both do the same thing and clash.

I dont use genkernel so i dont know how to change that.

find whatever you need to remove alsa from genkernel and just use the nvidia drivers if you want to use those.

orangeman12 · Apprentice Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 283 Location: Chair

I followed the gentoo alsa install guide and install alsa so that the alsa mixer works on my desktop but on start there is no sound still and i did have alsa start on boot the only problem that i had with the install guide was when i did

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

orangeman12: emerge mpg123

orangeman12 · Apprentice Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 283 Location: Chair

I emerge it and its says that it can not find the file music.mp3 would this be why the sound is not working?