Re: Asus motherboard and Sound
arijit sarkar wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 09:50 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:26:15AM -0400, Alon Kantor wrote:
>>> I'm having many difficulties to produce sound with my ASUS M2NPV-VM
>>> motherboard, neither with the on board sound nor with an independent
>>> card. Can anyone help. Thanks. Alon
>>>
>
> I am using the same motherboard.
>
> A. Install 'alsa-oss, alsa-utils' package. Run 'alsaconf' as root to
> reconfigure the soundcard. use 'alsactl store' to save the settings.
>
Alsaconf is broken and won't be fixed (bug no 432678) [1].
There is a work around on the NewbieDOC wiki [2]. Basically, check that /dev/dsp
exists; if not create it with "modprobe snd_pcm_oss".
> [...]
>
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432678
[2]
http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux#Some_applications_.28OSS_applications.29_produce_no_sound_in_ALSA
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Chris.
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