Compaq Audio Driver

[St_Clinton]

I put Ubuntu onto a computer that someone gave me years ago as they were getting a new one. It's a Compaq AP200... The install went great, except for one thing, the lack of sound. I have tried looking around for a driver, but can't find one. Does anybody know where I can find the sound driver?

[BoDiddley]

I have Compaq Presario 2300. I built Linux from scratch because I wanted LXDE, not KDE. Try this.

#apt-get install alsa-base

Then you must

#alsactl init

You might get this error:

returns-Unknown hardware: "XXXXXX" "Analog Devices XXXXXX"
“XXXXXXXXX" "0x103c" "0x006d"

No problem, then reboot.

[St_Clinton]

Thanks... I'm not sure if it worked, but I put my USB headset in and it came through fine, which is the most important place that I need things to work. I will test out the speaker jack after i get some sleep...

[BoDiddley]

Great. You have sound... that was phase one. Here are my notes for phase 2.

at this point sound was extended to everything but streaming webcams. I noticed that
knoppix was also using aumix (mixer) - I opted]

#apt-get install esound
[sound extended to streaming, and multiple interfaces]

[at this point sound is working universally, however - level is low]

#apt-get install esound-clients
#esddsp -m

#apt-get install alsamixergui
adjusting “PCM” levels nets proper results (increased levels)

#lsmod|grep snd (displays results differing from previous)

alsamixergui correctly displays Nforce card and AD1981B chip.