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03-15-2005, 04:29 PM
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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: USA
Distribution: Slackware current, Fedora Core 5, SuSE 10.1 OSS
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Sound Driver for Dell Integrated Audio Chipset?
Does anyone know where to find the driver for the Dell Integrated Audio Chipset for linux? I'm running slackware 10.1, and also need help modifying my system to support the audio...
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03-15-2005, 04:50 PM
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Registered: Feb 2004
Distribution: Slackware 10.2
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You might try to see if this can work for you I don't know what kind of onboard audio you have posting lspci would help.
Thanks for the "foolish" advice and everyone's help!!! Rufous rocks again.
Here is how I got the sound card in my Dell 400sc to work. The motherboard is an Intel 875PBZ (AD1980 integrated audio). I am using the stock box from Dell with no modifications... well except that I am running Fedora Core 1 (which they consider an "unsupported" platform). They only support Red Hat 9. I tried messing with some ALSA drivers I found for RH9 at one of their asia download site, but got no where. The documentation was horrible and very sparse.
There is no regular sound out from the internal speaker. Also the stereo speaker out jack is the middle one of the three audio jacks on the back. There is no standard "headphones" icon as I am used to seeing.
I followed the steps for the alsa setup at http://foolish.digitalinc.info/docs/alsa/ It was an excellent, clear guide.
The one problem I had was when going to alsa-project.org to get the right parameters for modules.conf as suggested by http://foolish.digitalinc.info/docs/alsa/ in the setup guide.
At the alsa-project pages the "details" page for the Intel i810 takes you to the 820 page. I guessed around at the URL and finally found it at http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...odule=intel8x0
Executive Summary... Read these pages :-)
http://foolish.digitalinc.info/docs/alsa/
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...odule=intel8x0
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03-15-2005, 05:22 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: USA
Distribution: Slackware current, Fedora Core 5, SuSE 10.1 OSS
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what directory is lspci located in?
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03-15-2005, 05:27 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Nottingham, UK
Distribution: Mageia 6, KDE Neon
Posts: 4,313
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It's in the /usr/bin on my system. Typing whereis,locate or find <filename> will often give you the location of what you are looking for. To use lspci just type lspci.
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03-15-2005, 05:42 PM
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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: USA
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hmm. "locate" doesn't work on my machine. I get the error "warning: locate: could not open database: /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db: No such file or directory." file doesn't exist in /usr/bin
Last edited by mrchaos; 03-15-2005 at 05:44 PM.
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03-15-2005, 06:04 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Nottingham, UK
Distribution: Mageia 6, KDE Neon
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Did you try just typing lspci?
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03-15-2005, 06:37 PM
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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: USA
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yeah, nothing happens :-(
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03-15-2005, 07:03 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Nottingham, UK
Distribution: Mageia 6, KDE Neon
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Sorry but I don't know enough about using FC3 to tell you how to install those missing packages, hang in there someone will come to your aid :-)
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03-15-2005, 07:06 PM
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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: USA
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actually, I'm sorry I didn't mention this, but I am currently using Slackware 10.1
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03-15-2005, 07:25 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Nottingham, UK
Distribution: Mageia 6, KDE Neon
Posts: 4,313
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Try asking in the Slackware specific forum.
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03-15-2005, 10:11 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by mrchaos
I get the error "warning: locate: could not open database: /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db: No such file or directory." file doesn't exist in /usr/bin
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You need to create that file first.
Code:
touch /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db
ls -l /var/lib/slocate
If it works you should see the slocate.db file, and it will have a size of zero bytes. Then, you need to run updatedb as root
That may take a few minutes. That should do it. -- J.W.
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03-15-2005, 11:58 PM
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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: USA
Distribution: Slackware current, Fedora Core 5, SuSE 10.1 OSS
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thank you very much! it worked like a charm :-). now back to my soundcard, where can I download AC'97 support for the 2.4 kernal?
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