On 07 Jul 2002 07:45:04 +1000 Darren King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority
> I just upgraded my old super 7 based system to a Epox 8K3A / Athlon > system. The 8K3A has sound on board and I'm trying to get it going. > > When I booted for the first time after the upgrade, I ran kudzu and it > found the ac97 sound ( and the usb controller) so I thought I was set. > I looked under /proc and the pci file contains the sound "card". The > sound modules load into the kernel as well. > > However, under the control center, there are no sound cards listed in > the hardware and when I try to play a sound file using xmms, it wont > even play...when I hit play, it stays at 0:00 seconds... > > If I am typing in the terminal and I hit backspace too many times, I > do get beeps out of the speakers so I think the hardware is fine. > > Anyone set up ac97 sound recently? The sound howto is extremely > outdated and not much help. > > Darren Don't know if this will help much but on my box the following modules are loaded. emu10k1 57984 2 ac97_codec 9568 0[emu10k1] sound 57292 0 [emu10k1] soundcore 4068 7 [emu10k1 sound] This is the relevant line from /etc/modules.conf alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 nothing relevant in /etc/modules. Can't tell you what I did, except install 8.2 as on my box it came up from the get go. Oh and I also installed Alsa when I installed the box. Maybe that will help. The rpms I installed are: alsaplayer-0.99.53-1mdk lib alsa1-0.5.10b-1mdk alsa-utils-0.5.10-4mdk James > > > > >
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