[Lancaster] onboard sound - cmedia 9738

[Richard Robinson]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 06:33:53PM +0000, Andy Baxter wrote:
> just finally got the onboard sound working on my new motherboard. This is 
> mainly meant for Richard Robinson, because I think he has a similar sound 
> chip, but I posted it to the list in case anyone else has onboard ac'97 
> sound.

Thanks, Andy. But actually, I'm not using it - I have an separate sound
card (SB Live) left over from a previous machine, so I'm actually doing
my sound through that. Mainly because I can get away with just using the
kernel sound drivers, which is simpler than bringing ALSA, etc, into it.

You bought that Elite m/b, then ?


> a small gotcha is that alsa sets all mixer controls to zero volume, muted, on 
> start up, so you need to set these right before you can hear the output. Once 
> I did this, the /etc/init.d script for alsa that debian installed seems to be 
> taking care of preserving the mixer settings between shutdown and boot-up.

I think you have to tell the mixer to save its settings, somehow, and
then they get found ? Haven't used ALSA for a while.

I've added a line to /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh which calls
/usr/local/sbin/bootmisc and I put any local startup stuff in there;
mixer levels, etc.


Cheers.

-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem