On Friday 01 December 2000 08:20 pm, you wrote: > > I had a similar motherboard and hte sound worked perfectly on LM 7.1 out of > the box! I don't know of sound quality compared to others coz I use it > mainly for playing CDs to my head-phones.. but ac97 did work out of the box > on VIA chipset in LM 7.1 is the bottom line :) > I have removed my AudioPCI and enabled my ac97 builtin sound (AOpen AK72 motherboard with a via chipset for an Athlon) I have downloaded, built, and installed the latest alsa drivers, etc. I have loaded the proper modules for it - after running "modprobe snd-card-via686a" I now have these modules loaded as well, with no error messages: snd-pcm 29824 0 [snd-card-via686a] snd-timer 8256 0 [snd-pcm] snd-mpu401-uart 2384 0 [snd-card-via686a] snd-rawmidi 9760 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 3504 0 [snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 24064 0 [snd-card-via686a] snd-mixer 23536 0 [snd-ac97-codec] snd 36320 1 [snd-card-via686a snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer] I have unmuted everything in the alsamixer. Result: nothing. No sound. The mic doesn't work either. Sound system is DOA. I have Mandrake 7.2, a FULLY modular kernel-2.2.17. I DO get an error during bootup related to sound: Dec 3 06:10:47 localhost aumix: aumix: error opening mixer So, how do I disable aumix and get the system to accept and use alsamixer? What does it take to get the ac97 sound system working? Are alsa and aRts incompatible? Here's one for the Mandrake developers: Why in the world is it that Mandrake appears to be going to alsa yet sounddrake doesn't work for alsa? You cannot setup your soundcard using sounddrake, a Mandrake-specific config tool, if you are using alsa, the standard base Mandrake sound system? It only works if you are using oss as your sound driver base. praedor
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