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Problem with onboard sound intel8x0 on Asus a7n8x-e

Hello,

I am a newbie to linux, and I have Slackware 10.1 for about 10 days.
I have installed network, video card and X and I have some idea how things work in linux.

I also installed sound drivers for my sound cards but I have a problem.
I have an Asus a7n8x-e, nForce 2 chipset, motherboard with onboard sound.
I also have a CMI8738 PCI sound card with midi port which is important for me so I don't want to pull out that card in order to get things working.
I installed nvidia sound drivers from their website, and I think it went ok.
I have sound from CMI card (played mp3 music), but I don't have sound from onboard soundchip. nVidia installer found it to be intel8x0 sound chip.
Here is list of modules found by $ lsmod | grep snd.

Code:

snd-pcm-oss            36768  0  (unused)

snd-mixer-oss          12376  0  [snd-pcm-oss]

snd-intel8x0          18336  0

snd-ac97-codec        59292  0  [snd-intel8x0]

snd-cmipci            16704  2

gameport                1420  0  [snd-cmipci]

snd-pcm                54344  1  [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-cmipci]

snd-opl3-lib            5828  0  [snd-cmipci]

snd-hwdep              4320  0  [snd-opl3-lib]

snd-timer              13764  1  [snd-pcm snd-opl3-lib]

snd-mpu401-uart        3136  0  [snd-cmipci]

snd-rawmidi            12480  0  [snd-mpu401-uart]

snd-seq-device          3812  0  [snd-opl3-lib snd-rawmidi]

snd                    32772  0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-cmipci snd-pcm snd-opl3-lib snd-hwdep snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]

snd-page-alloc          4680  0  [snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-hwdepsnd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd]

soundcore              3396  8  [nvsound snd]

I want to have sound from onboard intel8x0 chip.
Can anyone help me.

slack has all sound muted by default, you need to run `alsamixer` and un-mute everything (m), then save the settings with `alsactl store`

Hello,

Thank you for your help but still it's not working.
I unmuted the sound on the onboard sound card.
I spent some more time trying to make this work and this is what I found out.

sound card No. 0 is CMI pci card
sound card No. 1 is onboard intel
This is my modules.conf file

Code:

alias char-major-116 snd

alias char-major-14 soundcore

alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss

alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss

alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss

alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss

alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0

alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0

It says that onboard card should be No. 0
I changed modules.conf as follows and it didn't change a thing.

Code:

alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0

alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0

alias snd-card-1 snd-cmipci

alias sound-slot-1 snd-cmipci

alias char-major-116 snd

alias char-major-14 soundcore

alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss

alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss

alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss

alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss

alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0

alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0

Can anyone help me?