Hi! I think you're wrong... i've got an AC97 sound and modem card, but it isn't working under Linux -no drivers-. Model is Avance Logic (Realtek?) ALS300+ See you... praedor escribió: > 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 sy -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
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