Getting nForce to work with kernel 2.6.3

[Cigarman]

IT WORKS!!

wow is all I can say. Finally! Alsa is the cure! I installed all the alsa packages I could find on the mandrake cooker CD's and then told KDE and XMMS to use them when playing back. Nforce2 comes up as 2 different devices under the alsa control in xmms. I had to use the second one and then *poof!* I could hear my Eisbrecher oggs playing! Guess I won't have to wait on NVIDIA's generosity after all

Thank you everyone for the ideas!

[kenjiro]

Originally posted by blueworm
check out the comments at the bottom.
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...odule=intel8x0

Well, from what I get, those guys are refering to the ALSA software people used to download. Now that the kernel supports it... wouldn't it be different?

Of course I will try messing around with my mplayer, xmms and KDE configuration... let's see where it will lead me

Thanks for now

[blueworm]

The only differrence is that now alsa is distributed in kernel 2.6.
So basically its the same deal.

[kenjiro]

So... I should follow those guide lines and create those config files they describe there?

Sorry if I am sounding stupid, but this is the first time I "play" with ALSA stuff. I was used to compile the OSS support on my kernels.

thanks for the patience.

[kenjiro]

Oh well... I tried creating that '.asoundrc' file (put into it those lines I got from that site)... but I still can't get my 5.1 system to work

On xmms and mplayer it only uses the front speakers. I tried that "starting" line command to tell mplayer to use AC3 with 6 channels, but then the sound don't work at all

Again, I have an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe, which has NForce2.

Thanks

[Glorandar]

To get sound working with your nforce2 board, I suggest this page: http://www.wlug.org.nz/NForce2Notes

[kenjiro]

Thanks for the tip, even my having put my sound card to work as I wanted before reading your post, and of course, checking that site.

All I needed to have my 6 speakers "speaking", since I had already put my sound card to work, was to use something like this:

gmplayer -ao alsa9:surround51



Really thanks for your help, guys!