[WBEL-users] Gateway M520 and Linux

[qsm]

thank for all your help, my sound is working now.

Jan: your srpms save my live.... :-)

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From: Jan-Albert van Ree <javanree at vanree.net>
To: whitebox-users at beau.org
Sent: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:58:42 +0100
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Gateway M520 and Linux

> 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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