Happy Easter and Jethro Tull

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 12:36:32PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> I just had to plunk in a new MoBo (P6VEM), and I ain't getting any sound from
> the onboard AC97, using either the ALSA or OSS driver. I've upgraded to the
> latest kernel available, 2.4.22-28mdk, just to be sure. Of course, I've made
> sure that sound is not muted with aumix. I have tried with artsd running, and
> not. I tried google.com/linux, but posts on this subject are either old, not
> appropos, or in German.
> 
> The board is a VIA Apollo chipset, with onboard VT82C686 [Apollo Super
> AC97/Audio] sound.
> 
> I get [OK]'s for everything at startup, ALSA loads ok, everything looks good to
> go. No apps complain about not finding a sound device, AFAICT, but nothing from
> Beep, MPlayer, ROX MusicBox, GnomeCD, etc.
> 
> How to further troubleshoot this?

Try using the line in or head phone or mic jack for the speakers.  If
that fixes it, you ahve a 'quirky' ac97 chipset, which alsa at least has
a parameter that is supposed to fix.  Blame intel for redefining ac97
too many times.

Lennart Sorensen
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