See http://wiki.gnewsense.org/ForumMain/SoudGNewSense2. Peter Stevenson
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 10:33 -0700, Peter and Jesse wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I've also lost my sound. I'm using a GA-K8VM800M (Rev 1.x) with an > > integrated Realtek ALC655 Audio AC'97 Codec. Aparently, the Realtek > > ALC655 depends on some non-free stuff. What to do? Should I buy a sound > > card listed here: http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/soundcards ? How do I > > know that it will work without linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24? Is anyone on > > this list using a sound card that is still working in gNS 2.0? > > > > I'll appreciate any help I can get. > > > > Eric... > > Until we figure this out, I suggest that folks don't go out and buy new > hardware. It seems that free drivers have been deleted as well as > nonfree drivers. I do have a sound card listed in the FSF site that > uses the snd-intel8x0 driver, which is contained in the > linux-ubuntu-modules package > (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/i386/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-16-386/filelist). > As Brian said, someone needs to go through this package and take out > all the nonfree drivers before we can put it back in the repository. > It's too bad this just came out now. A lot of new folks who just found > out about gNewSense through the 2.0 release are going to get turned off > by not having sound. > Peter Stevenson > > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
