[luau] Mandrake 9 & Geforce4 MX420

[W. Wayne Liauh]

I am having problem with VIA AC97 built-in sound (part of VIA KT400).

Eric Hattemer wrote:

>My sound driver and your sound driver are probably two completely
>separate issues.  Mine is the nforce integrated sound.  It has the same
>device descriptor as an i810, I think.  However, the i810 driver causes
>it to hardlock.  So nvidia made a driver called nvaudio, which is a
>modified version of the i810.  In order to get mdk to boot, you need to
>go into interactive, tell it not to start service sound.  Then edit
>/etc/modules.conf and replace i810 with nvaudio.  Compile the nforce
>package from the nforce driver section at nvidia.com.  Reboot, and when
>it starts up service sound, it automatically finds the nvidia module and
>doesn't lock.  But I have no idea of what sound card you have or whether
>you're having issues with it.  I have alsa installed, but I don't think
>mdk is making use of it.  In fact, I'm not even sure its using arts in
>kde.  Its quite odd.  I only get one sound ever, and two sound programs
>have to compete.  I think its using soundwrapper, which I don't know
>anything about.  But its functional, and that's all that really counts. 
>I just can't get sound in aim and xmms at the same time.  
>
>-Eric Hattemer
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>On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 00:27, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
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>>BTW, Eric, how do you fix the sound driver?
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