Re: sound card auto-detection problems in KNOPPIX-v3.7-2004-12-08

[jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień)]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004  Conrad Newton <conrad.newton@broadpark.no> wrote:

> When I boot the latest knoppix with
> 
>   knoppix26 alsa
> 
> my sound card is not detected.  Booting with
> 
>   knoppix26 alsa=cmipci
> 
> activates it (as does modprobe snd_cmipci),

You have implicitly answered one of my questions:


On 13 Dec 2004  jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień) wrote:

> On 20 Sep 2004  jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień) wrote:
> 
> > Below is the letter I tried to post when the list was not active. It concerned 
> > Knoppix 3.6, kernel 2.6.7 and OSS. With Knoppix 3.7 the situation is the same.
> 
> The official 3.7 also behaves in the same way.
> 
> > 
> > On 25 Aug 2004  jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień) wrote:

[...]

> > I also tried to boot Knoppix with ALSA, but I stumbled at the very
> > beginning: alsamixer reports an error, KMix also doesn't seem to work.
> 
> What might be interesting, such Knoppix derivates as Oralux has to be
> booted with alsa option on my computer, and the sound is then OK.

Booting with alsa=intel8x0 helps in the sense that I have now with
ALSA the same problem which I described earlier for OSS (white noise
from xawtv unless radio is called).

Best regards

Janusz

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