Thus spake Keith O'Connell: > Hi, > > I am now stuck. I am unable to get sound out of the box in front of me, > and I am at the end of the list of things I can try. > > I have a machine based on a Gigabyte GA-7ZX. It has a 1.2 Ghz AMD and > 512Mb. I have managed to establish that the sound chip on the board > requires the es1371 module, and this I selected at installation time, > and it duly appears in /etc/modules. > > This is where the problem arises. If the module is left in the > /etc/modules file, then my Gnome desktop locks up solid and the only way > out is to pull the power lead out of the back of the box! If es1371 is > commented-out then Gnome runs perfectly, but in absolute silence. > > I have had sound running fine on two other boxes with different sound > chips, so I am reasonably sure that my method is good in principle, but > I cannot get it to work in with particular combination. Hopefully > someone else has encountered, and solved, what I clearly cannot. > > My only requirement is that the solution does not go outside "stable". I > am finding Linux a big enough challange without bringing in > "testing/unstable/sid" into the equation > > Can any one help? > > Keith Do you use kdm/gdm? If you can get to a terminal, try playing music outside of the Gnome environment to isolate the problem - I seem to recall several people on this list having sound problems in the past few months with Gnome, although I don't remeber why. If you can play sound from the terminal, then it _will_ work, just a question of tweaking Gnome. HTH, Steve -- The man who has never been flogged has never been taught. -- Menander
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