topic title: No sound
Posts: 8
commoner
Joined: 17 Mar 2012
#1
My old Dell Inspiron 8000 runs now fine thanks to antiX. However, the soundcard is not working. I tried to fix it with alsaconf, but it did not help. It did not find suitable driver. What to do?
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#2
What sound card do you have?

inxi -A

in a terminal should give the info required.
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commoner
Joined: 17 Mar 2012
#3
The soundcard is:
ESS ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#4
commoner wrote:The soundcard is:
ESS ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator


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commoner
Joined: 17 Mar 2012
#5
I got the sound card working following the advice in debian wiki! (
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). In one point I was a little bit hesitant to continue: installing alsa-base, alsa-utils and build-essential demanded to remove about 50 packages. Yet it seems that the system runs fine without them.
Thanks a lot again!
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heavy metal
Joined: 27 May 2012
#6
You have to go to antiX control center, hardware, configure sound system, run the alsa configuration, you just have to enter okay to all questions, the alsa configuration utility will configure your sound, it worked for me!

Very Important!: Remember that after runing the alsa configuration, you must have to raise the master volume control to 100%!