Hi, I have kernel 2.6-test 5 installed on a Gentoo Linux machine (yeah I know there's a more recent version, but I figured I might as well wait now for an RC release or something, the betas are comming thick and fast). Anyhoo, as you may or may not know, alsa is now included as an official component of the new kernel.
However my problem is I have no analouge sound system to connect to the anolouge outs on my computer system. All I have is an optical digital out connected to a SPDIF connector on my motherboard, leading in turn to a dolby digital 7.1 reciever. But unsurprisingly to some here perhaps, I cannot hear any sound.
I know this settup works in Linux, as the identical same set-up worked in Red Hat without any additional configuration by me at all.
I have enabled alsa in the kernel and disabled OSS support.
the options I have in the kernel are:
Code:
*> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
<*> Sequencer support
[M] Sequencer dummy client[*] OSS API emulation[*] OSS Mixer API [*] OSS PCM (digital audio) API[*] OSS Sequencer API
[ ] RTC Timer support
[ ] Verbose printk
[ ] Debug
The onboard soundchip I have is listed in KDE info centre as VT8233/8235 which is a very common chip - and as I said is certainly well supported for digital out-put under Red Hat.
Has anyone any input they can offer? Do you have a similar configuration, or at least have some suugestions to get it going?
All input is wecome.
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PS
If I get this going this will mean I will have something in Linux which I have never had before, which is full accelerated video and sound. I am extremely keen to do this and have tried many distributions in order to figure out how to get it going. If I could haveboth these things, the chances are I might opt to abandon Windows completely. So it would be a great service to me if you knew and could help me get this going.
The soundserver is loading properly on start -p and I get no errors when starting KDE, so I'm pretty sure sound has started - although as I said I have no way of telling if analouge sound is working or not. There isn't even an option in kmixer for digital sound (SPDIF) outpout.
