On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 19:34 +0100, Naga wrote: > On Monday 09 February 2009 19:13:32 James wrote: > [...] > > The mobo has an Nvidia chip, the video card has a ATI video chip, > > both only work under the Intel HDA driver. These are compiled > > into the kernel, not loadable modules. I'm going bald googling > > trying to find out what to do, or how to fix? > [...] > > No sound. Kmix has a red X over it on my kde panel. > > There are no choices there in Kmix to select on. > > HOW do I set this up? udev, hal, or evdev configs? > > In the 2.6.28 kernel alsa is broken for hda-intel. Either use 2.6.27 series > kernel or use a live alsa ebuild.
Works for me. In fact, I've never alsa, mixers, and sound working better than in 2.6.28... I have this card: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) which has the pci id 8086:284b -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. -- Chuang-tzu