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The first gnulinux I installed was blag on a 770 thinkpad replacing windows98SE. For a week I tried to get sound working trying all the recipes I found and down
by mediumsmart 2y ago
The first gnulinux I installed was blag on a 770 thinkpad replacing windows98SE. For a week I tried to get sound working trying all the recipes I found and downloading forum threads on the topic in bulk to research the issue. But not even crickets. One night I woke up for some reason and looked through saved forum posts and in one of them someone posted a long cryptic command that worked for them. I typed it in hit Enter, no message, prompt just returned and the sound worked. that kind of cured me
- adrian_b 2y agoUnfortunately, one of the worst parts in Linux-based systems has always been how to select which is the default audio device to which any sound output or input must be routed and which is the correspondence between the real audio devices existing in a computer and multiple ambiguous device names that might be used for them by various audio utilities. Sometimes the only good way was to test all possible names with speaker-test or the like.
- lelanthran 2y agoLucky you. Took me a month to port an existing driver to me cheaper unknown brand sound card, in 1995. Got the CD from an OS book. Kernel internals maybe? Doesn't matter, the book was enough to understand enough of the kernel to, by trial and error, stumble upon the correct way to talk to the sound card.