(semi-solved): Intel(r) AC'97 Audio Controller - SigmaTel Codec

[Oleg <oleg_inconnu@myrealbox.com>]

On Monday 25 November 2002 10:47 pm, Jeremy Petzold wrote:
> casue I screwed up....it is ACPI not APCI.
>
> get the vanilla kernel. get the ACPI patch, and from the top level kernel
> source directory, if the patch file is zipped do a:
>
> zcat <patch location and name> | patch -p0
>
> if it is not zipped do a:
>
> cat <patch location and name> |patch -p0

Yes, thanks. I finally got it to work using vanilla 2..4.19, acpi patch and 
the developement release alsa drivers from their web site.

I think my problem all along was that I didn't modprobe snd-pcm-oss (sound 
and snd-pcm are not enough)

Now it works, but the sound isn't as loud as under Windows XP (even at 
maximum "vol" and "pcm" settings using aumix), and it gets distorted when 
"vol" setting is higher than ~ 50% [1]

I will be investigating this issue in next few days and perhaps pester this 
list some more. For now, I'd like to thank everyone who replied for their 
help!

Oleg

[1] I don't really understand why there are two independent volume controls 
in aumix: "vol" is referred to as the main volume control, and "pcm" is 
connected to the xmms volume control.