Sound on a dell inspiron 8200

Kriptek · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 3:14 am Post subject: Sound on a dell inspiron 8200

need some info on how i can get this to work. I have read that some people have been able to use the i810_audio driver. But when i go to insmod that it wont work.

any ideas.

cwizman · n00b Joined: 28 Nov 2002 Posts: 29

Try typing: modprobe i810_audio. I have an 8200 and that makes it work for me. Oh, by the way, I would like to know if you've been able to get your wireless card to work.

Kriptek · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 4:33 am Post subject:

yeah i believe my wifi is working.... although i havent tried it yet. I have a cisco aironet 352 pcmcia compiled just fine along with the drivers.

lghman · Guru Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Florida

I cannot get sound to work! I have everything else running in top shape, but no sound.

cwizman · n00b Joined: 28 Nov 2002 Posts: 29

No - I didn't add anything to the modules.d/aliases file. Stupid question: did you make sure your volume is loud enough? If your volume isn't the problem, navigate to your sound modules directory and try them all.

lghman · Guru Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Florida

yea the volume is up, I think my problem is that instead of linking /dev/sound/mixer -> /dev/mixer I did it the oppsite way. Is there a way to fix this?

--sonik

xr31Daisy · Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 6:20 pm Post subject:

I went the alsa way, using the Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide.
it works fine for me.
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Ladius · Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 9:13 pm Post subject: Alsa is the way to go

I'm running a Dell Inspiron 8200 and for my Sound the ALSA guide with a few modifications worked perfectly. In the Kernel you only need the soundcore as a module and just the ICH card line, no others. This should be applicable to all 8200's from Dell unless they changed the sound in the past or will change it in the future....

Then build your kernel and install it, (its very important for you to not only build it but also to move the bzImage file from arch/i386/boot/bzImage to yoru /boot/bzImage as when you build the alsa-drivers they will look at your kernel and or modules for symbols).

Now emerge alsa-driver, if you've got an old alsa-driver version remember they just changed some ways things are called (ie module names changed they dropped snd_ stuff, but do look at the docs).

modify your /etc/modules.d/alsa file to look like this. (NOTE the only line I changed was the "snd-card-0" line switching it from the default which was given to my card the "snd-intel8x0". I uncommented the "char-major-116 and char-major-14" as well I believe.

lghman · Guru Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Florida

SWEEEEEET GUYZ!!! Thanks the ALSA drivers worked like a charm. (After I figured out that I needed an output plugin for XMMS .... LOL). Now everything on my laptop works in peak performance. Dont ya just love gentoo lol

--sonik