
brianp at spamcop
May 28, 2013, 9:47 PM
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Can't help you there. Have never bothered with the sound as I'm using my alpha mostly as a web server and remote X server. On 5/28/2013 18:39, Don Wilburn wrote: > My alpha has a built-in ES1888 sound card on its ISA bus. Does anyone > have one that works? > > This old thread indicates that there are hardware problems: > http://osdir.com/ml/linux.ports.alpha/2008-03/msg00056.html > > Alsa and the snd-es18xx modules load fine, the mixer works, nothing is > muted, etc. Trying a wav file with aplay gives some pcm error. > > The obvious solution is to scare up a PCI sound card. It would be nice > if someone could tell me the built-in card works for them. > > Adios, DW >
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