Kent West wrote:
<snip about Kent's inability to get sound working on a new Gateway
computer with integrated AC'97 "SoundMax" using either OSS or alsa>
(Now, does this mean I'm going to have to temporarily move a Windows
drive into the box to test the sound [to make sure it's not a "win-
soundsystem, like a "win-modem" or "win-printer"]? Yuck!)
With great trepidation and fear, I backed up my / partition and then
wiped it and another large (unused, thankfully) partition and installed
Windows 2000 on the box. The sound worked. So the hardware is functional.
After I finally got Linux restored properly, I booted into Linux and low
and behold, "saytime" now works. I can also "splay" an mp3, although
another mp3 just "gleeps" at me. However, volume is very poor. I've
tried playing with "amixer", and "alsamixer", and "xmix" and "xmms" and
I just can't hardly get any volume out of the system. Nonetheless, I am
MUCH farther along. I have no idea why the sound works now and it didn't
before my Win2K experiment. All I can figure out is that something
during the boot-up process made the difference. Go figure.
Just for the record, here's the output of "lsmod":
Module Size Used by
snd-pcm-oss 18624 1 (autoclean)
snd-pcm-plugin 15856 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-mixer-oss 5088 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
vmnet 17632 0 (unused)
vmmon 18672 0 (unused)
snd-card-intel8x0 2480 1
snd-intel8x0 6512 0 [snd-card-intel8x0]
snd-pcm 31840 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-intel8x0]
snd-timer 8656 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 23968 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-mixer 24128 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ac97-codec]
snd 36624 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin
snd-mixer-oss snd-card-intel8x0 snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer
snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer]
soundcore 3888 2 [snd]
visor 4288 0 (unused)
usbserial 12128 0 [visor]
3c59x 22848 1
Thanks to all who helped, expecially Andrea!
Kent
