Re: sound?

[Colin <cwvca_SPAMNOT@hotmail.com>]

Shawn Yarbrough wrote:
> alsaconf can't find any sound hardware.  Sound works perfectly under
> Win XP.  I notice the sound hardware for the nForce 2 chipset (chip is
> supposedly called intel8x0) is mentioned explicitly in modules.conf:
> 
> # Prevent abnormal drivers from grabbing index 0
> options snd-intel8x0m index=-2
> 
> This is my first experience with ALSA, Sarge, and the 2.6 kernel so
> I'm at a loss where to go from here.  Any other ideas you have might
> be very helpful even if they are slim chances.

In addition to unmuting your channels using alsamixergui, alsaconf does NOT
save the newly loaded kernel modules to /etc/modules, you have to enter
them yourself.