I have a Compaq Deskpro DPEND P600 and while sound used to work on WinXP, PCLinuxOS gives me the following message in Control Center > Sound Configuration:
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No Sound Card has been detected on your machine. Please verify that a Linux-supported Sound Card is correctly plugged in.
You can visit our hardware database at:
http://www.pclinuxoshwdb.com/
Note: if you've an ISA PnP sound card, you'll have to use the alsaconf or the sndconfig program. Just type "alsaconf" or "sndconfig" in a console.
alsaconf finds 2 sound cards in my system and I chose to configure the ESS card as that's what the BIOS says is present. It goes though the configuration and finally says
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Now ALSA is ready to use.
For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.
Have a lot of fun!
but no luck. Infact at times, it just works for a day or two and then no sound again. The sound icon in the tray usually shows sound as muted.
Surprising enough, I have a sound file in /etc/modprobe.d
which has the following in it:
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alias snd-card-0 snd-es18xx
alias sound-slot-0 snd-es18xx
For the record, I also have the following files in the /etc/modprobe.d folder:
- blacklist
- blacklist-compat
- blacklist-mdv
- ipw-no-associate.conf
- ipw3946d
- snd-oss
- snd-usb-audio
- sound
In the past I had connected a USB sound device which used to work well, but I removed it.