[WBEL-users] Gateway M520 and Linux

[Jan-Albert van Ree]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 02:44:49PM -0500, Edward Rudd wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 13:08, qsm wrote:
> > i installed CentOS (and WBEL too) on a notebook gateway m520 and all work
> > fine, but when i try to use the sound the notebook freeze.
> > 
> > the soundcard is an intel i810_audio.
> 
> i810 chipsets are horrid chipsets.. I've had no end of problems trying
> to get ANY os using those things. I had an i810 in a compaq desk pro en
> at work and I had to compile CVS releases (to get fixes now in 1.0.7 and
> up) of alsa just to get the sound to correctly pipe out the external
> speaker jack instead of the internal Speaker..  
> 
> If you want to get sound on the i810 w/ WBEL/CentOS you will need to
> download, compile, and install Alsa from alsa-project.org the latest
> release should work perfectly with i810 on that laptop. 

I've got Whitebox (S)RPM's for ALSA support, which makes for a much cleaner install... http://www.vanree.net/wbel30/workstation/

I've installed it on several boxes, including those with i810/i815 chipsets and had no issues configuring sound using these RPM's and the included configuration tool. Just be sure to read all the ALSA docs!
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