[ale] Sound problems in Debian 2.6 kernel

[james at sumners.ath.cx]

I _loathe_ the i8x0 sound cards. Complete crap.

I have had limited success with the i8x0 ALSA driver in 2.6.x. The card
in my laptop works but it starts to crackle. The card in a workstation I
used didn't work at all. So, you may want to just try the deprecated
(read works) OSS driver. You may only get one sound channel but at least
you get audio.

I would seriously recommend trying to get a cheap SBLive!. The values
are about $15 now.

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:15:43PM -0400, Jason Day wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 04:32:30PM +0200, Thomas Holmquist wrote:
> > What is turned on in your kernel config under sound? (perhaps you could attach 
> > the .config file)
> 
> Sound core is compiled as a module, as is ALSA, the OSS compatability
> stuff, and my sound card driver, i8x0.  Sound section of .config is
> attached.
> 
> > Does sound work as root?
> 
> It exhibits the same behavior as root.
> 
> > Does dmesg say anything about sound? (When you boot up, Alsa will print out 
> > any cards It detected. (Im pretty sure =P)
> 
> Dmesg doesn't say anything at all about sound.  There's an alsa init
> script that restores the mixer settings, and it runs without error.  I
> can also run alsamixer, which detects the card correctly.  Everything
> under /proc/asound looks ok, as far as I can tell.
> 
> It behaves exactly as if the sound is muted, but either it's not, or the
> mixer is lying to me.
> 
> Thanks again for any help.
> 
> Jason


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