I managed to get my Realtek AC'97 soundcard working properly, which I hope is an indication that having an AC'97 soundcard is no longer a death sentence. I thought that I'd go through what I did to get it working so that others having problems could find a solution. I compiled in the OSS --> OSS (Deprecated) --> Intel ICH (i8xx) audio, and the ALSA driver for Intel i8x0/MX440. I'm actually not sure which did the trick (I was getting slightly frustrated -- and decided to try anything(!)) Now at boot time it gets detected: Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 22:49:38 Mar 21 2004 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64 i810: Intel ICH4 found at IO 0xe100 and 0xe000, MEM 0xf0000400 and 0xf0000600, IRQ 5 i810: Intel ICH4 mmio at 0xf8821400 and 0xf8823600 i810_audio: Primary codec has ID 0 i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels. i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode. i810_audio: Resetting connection 0 i810_audio: Connection 0 with codec id 0 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALG64 (Unknown) i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 2 i810_audio: setting clocking to 48648 On another note: I configured alsa-base to use the intel8x0m and intel8x0 drivers, but this didn't seem to work, and at boot-up I get: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.2c (Thu Feb 05 15:41:49 2004 UTC). ALSA device list: No soundcards found. However, the end result is that it works fine, even if the exact reason why remains slightly blurry... thanks to everyone who replied to my original post! -- -jamie <jamie@silverdream.org> | spamtrap: spam@silverdream.org w: http://www.silverdream.org | p: sms@silverdream.org pgp key @ http://silverdream.org/~jps/pub.key 21:30:02 up 36 min, 3 users, load average: 0.38, 0.28, 0.24
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