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Old 11-16-2005, 02:51 PM   #16
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sure you can install alsa....i think i may use the same module for one of my boxes and use alsa on all of them
 
Old 11-16-2005, 02:58 PM   #17
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I've tried following this guide:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...ultiple+sounds
And the sink doesn't show up

I tried running the tests such as the ones shown here

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DmixPlugin
And I get errors on step 4:
"can't find a suitable libao driver" and "pcm_dmix.c:868snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave".
 
Old 11-16-2005, 03:05 PM   #18
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try this


---->Applications
--------->System Tools
--------------->Configuration Editor
----------------------->desktop
---------------------------->gnome
---------------------------------->sound

uncheck Enable ESD.
exit Configuration Editor.
before you reboot check the Save Current Setup
this stops esd booting and enable alsa to be default.
then go into
---->System
------------> Preferences
------------------->Multimedia Systems Selector
change both input and output to alsa
 
Old 11-16-2005, 03:24 PM   #19
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Did what you said...but ALSA is still not showing up.

Tried to go over this tutorial again:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...ultiple+sounds

But no luck
 
Old 11-16-2005, 04:41 PM   #20
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bump..?
 
Old 11-16-2005, 04:47 PM   #21
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did you reboot after changing the settings?
 
Old 11-16-2005, 04:58 PM   #22
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technically you don't have to reboot, just kill esd, and start alsa but it's easier to just reboot.

I would also fire up xchat(or whatever irc client you have) and check #ubuntu at irc.freenode.net and check in there
 
Old 11-16-2005, 05:54 PM   #23
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I did reboot...maybe I didn't install Alsa correctly..? (although I was able to "apt-get install" it)

Yeah, I'm on the channl right now under the same nick...I'll see if I can ask around
 
Old 11-16-2005, 06:04 PM   #24
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It seems to be full of users and my questions are getting ignored...I'll keep messing around it. Thanks anyways
 
Old 11-16-2005, 06:54 PM   #25
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so the alsa module should be called
snd-intel8x0

try to modprobe

or better:
run alsaconf ( as root )

alsaconf should be in package alsa-base or alsa-utils or such

_in case of failure_ ::
if modprobe fails you probably had kernel 2.4 installed ? the problem with kernel 2.4 is (was for me that alsa was not officially part of the linux standard kernel. So you will have to decide if you make a new kernel 2.6, install the standard debian 2.6 ( as I read in the install howto that one's already with sarge 3.1 )
or get to run good old 2.4 with alsa ( is it really that important ?? )
 
Old 11-16-2005, 07:10 PM   #26
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ooops, I just read the first half of your thread. anyway, I found that
http://www.alex.org.uk/T23/#Sound_Support
about your laptop, and on alsa-project how the driver/module is named
alsaconf is a nice tool to get alsa running
 
Old 11-16-2005, 08:14 PM   #27
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I ran alsaconf on the terminal a while ago and it said it couldn't find any PnP or PCI cards.

also, I looked at the URL you provided and the link to the patch is dead

Thanks for the helping out anyhow

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