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I'm running slackware 10 on an Dell Inspiron 5100 notebook with Intel8x0 AC97 onboard sound. When I was using Fedora before I switched, sound was working fine and now I can't get it to work. I've ran alsaconf which detects my sound card but then I can't use "alsamixer" because I get "No mixer elems found" and I tried kmix in kde which opened but I still didn't get any sound. Any suggestions? Thanks.
I tried reinstalling alsa and even downloading and installing the newest stable version but to no avail. I went into gnome and unmuted the sound but after I closed x it said "Sound device inadequate for Esound. Fatal."
what device is your sound card on... /dev/dsp? you may hve it configured wrong. do you have other devices that it may find as a sound card? tv tuner maybe?
The same thing happens to me. We really need some professional help here. I tried all of the above but the same thing happens. i have the same specs too. Any help is wanted greatly.
Hi. I find the problem to be the way ALSA loads modules. I have yet to figure it out. Alsa loads the ac'97 module before loading the i810_audio module for OSS legacy support, and on an Intel Board that is backwards. Someone screwed up about Intel boards when they wrote the script.
My workaround is to install slackware 10 with everything using the 2.24 kernel (the 2.67 kernal does not support OSS) and the removepkg alsa-driver. Configure your machine automatically to do it - or at the console prompt after boot type "modprobe i810_audio" - making certain to removepkg and you will have glorious sound.
Please note this is only a temporary work-a-round as kernel support for OSS is now gone with new versions. Seems they want to concentrate on folks with IEEE1394 Cards instead of folks with TV-Tuner Cards so they will no longer offer analog sound support. This means to me I will have to go back to Windows to have my hardware supported.
Silly when so many people are now just getting items installed in their computers which need analog support through TV-Cards and the like.
Anyway I figured out how to compile the latest kernel and use OSS so I am thinking for TV-Card fans I might start a spot.
Best let you go - definetly ALSA hates Intel Boards with TV. But also really any onboard cardl A hangover I think of old wars about modems.
But also
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