fresh sarge install: no sound on nForce2?
I installed Sarge for my first time ever. (I used a network install
CD). Love Sarge and Gnome but my sound doesn't work. I picked the
2.6.8 kernel.
My system has a gigabyte mainboard with an nForce2 chipset. I've read
that this implies the snd_intel8x0 alsa module but I can't make it
work. The alsaconf program says it can't find any sound cards. This
is a dual-boot machine and the sound works fine under Win XP. Under
Gnome the volume control slider refuses to be set above zero sound.
When I ran the sound preferences tool it was telling me to install the
gnome-audio package to play sounds. I did and it stopped complaining
about gnome-audio but there is still no sound. I also clicked "enable
sound server startup" and "sounds for events" but no help.
Any ideas, anybody?
Here's my lsmod. Note I haven't changed my modules config from the
defaults. I had to do a modprobe snd-intel8x0 on the command line to
get it to load any snd modules at all.
/etc# lsmod | grep snd
snd_intel8x0 33068 0
snd_ac97_codec 59268 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 48168 0
snd_mixer_oss 16640 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 85384 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 23300 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11144 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 7296 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 23204 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 7944 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 50660 9
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 9824 1 snd
gameport 4736 2 snd_intel8x0,analog
NOTE unrelated to sound: the X setup offered to use frame buffer
which I accepted but then X didn't work until racked my brain and I
ran dpkg-reconfigure and disabled frame buffer. So my first
impression is that while the new installer is a huge leap forward, it
still needs work. A non-computer-nerdy user would have found Sarge
unusable having made that mistake. This sound thing would baffle
them, too.
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