Soundmax sound card no sound

joem · Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2002 12:57 am Post subject: Soundmax sound card no sound

I have been trying to get my soundmax sound card to work for quite some time with no luck. I have read all of the threads and the alsa documentation and I still get nothing. I compiled alsa using the intel8x0 driver..set up the alsa config file..started alsa..unmuted all of the channels..everything seemed to work ok but no sound comes out.

lsmod shows :
Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-mixer-oss 13304 2 (autoclean)
snd-intel8x0 19232 2
snd-pcm 65120 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-timer 11976 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 30948 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-mpu401-uart 3488 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi 14368 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 4384 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd 30092 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer
snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]

anybody else have any similar problems regarding this or know what im doing

m0pr0be · Guru Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 308

hi,

ok. here is my (strange) experience how i got alsa working on my g3 powerbook.

i followed every possible documentation, but still no go.

the solution was to start some playback (mpg321 -o alsa -@ xxx.m3u) and then launch alsamixer and play around with EVERY channel setting. the channel that unmuted my speakers was some "mic" channel. really strange. but now it works. dont forget to alsactl store the mixer settings.

joem · Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2002 3:03 am Post subject: nope

all channels are at full volume..still nothing

oniq · Guru Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 597 Location: Connecticut

I have a SoundMax soundcard in my Compaq Presario laptop. I use the VIA 82C686 driver in the 2.4.20 kernel under Sound Support. Should be similar driver for ALSA.
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