Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 18:12, Michal Bukovjan wrote: > > >>ALSA modules, which worked for a long time for me, seems broken after I >>enabled those by hand. But perhaps they are fixed in Alsa 0.9rc3, MDK9.0 >>ships with Alsa 0.9rc2. > > > Are you sure they're broken? > > Remember you don't have to enable ALSA by hand any more, use draksound. > And also remember default ALSA setting, for some insane and stupid > reason, is to mute everything, so you have to run alsamixer(gui) to get > any sound in the first place.
I am pretty sure they (ALSA drivers for VIA686a) are broken in MDK9.0/ALSA 0.9rc2. I enabled them by hand, and the sound was unmuted and volume was working - but instead of sound (GNOME events, xmms playing - via ESD, OSS, ALSA plugin, I tried everything) it resulted in some distorted sounds. That's why draksound will not even offer them (which is correct decision from Mandrake).
