[Alsa-user] Need basic assistance with onboard sound and multiple sound streams...

2006-06-12 Thread Brian Keener
I've used a SoundBlaster Live for a long time under linux.  Apparantly I've been spoiled by the SB Live's hardware mixing ability; I can't get the on-board Nforce3 (snd_intel8x0) to mix multiple sound streams. What can I realistically expect from Alsa?  Can I expect to have gaim, XMMS, and VMWare

Re: [Alsa-user] Need basic assistance with onboard sound and multiple sound streams...

2006-06-12 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 15:05 -0400, Brian Keener wrote: > I've used a SoundBlaster Live for a long time under linux. Apparantly > I've been spoiled by the SB Live's hardware mixing ability; I can't > get the on-board Nforce3 (snd_intel8x0) to mix multiple sound streams. > > What can I realisticall

[Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-12 Thread Claude Yu
Hi Clemens,     After installing FC-5 distribtion and booting up in dual boot mode gracefully. It is great. however, something has made me feel so outrageous similarly to the fate of installing Mandrake 2006 -- No sound! I found either kernel unable to load sound modules to support its s

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-12 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Claude Yu wrote: > Hi Clemens, > > > After installing FC-5 distribtion and booting up in dual boot mode > gracefully. It is great. however, > something has made me feel so outrageous similarly to the fate of installing > Mandrake 2006 -- No sound! I hope that you did not ch

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-12 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Bill Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Claude Yu wrote: > > > Hi Clemens, > > > > > > After installing FC-5 distribtion and booting up in dual boot mode > > gracefully. It is great. however, > > something has made me feel so outrageo

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-12 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 20:21 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote: > Since Windows runs the soundcard using drivers supplied by the > manufacturer, write the manufacturer to ask why they did not write a > module for Linux. This is no solution. We need the vendors to test the ALSA code and contribute patches.

Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to load sound modules though soundcard(onbard) detected

2006-06-12 Thread Claude Yu
Hi all,   Below is the message I put in Linux Forum early on asking for help but that was under Mandrake 2006 distribution and now FC5. Yes, I was so naive to move between kernels and thought that the problem would have gone. I did actually install 1.0.11rc5 driver +lib_utils in Mandrake's b