Hello,

I had some minor troubles with getting Antix working the way I want.
But after searching in the forum and Googling around I have solved all issues but one.
It's an issue that returns quite often in this forum, but I still didn't solve it for my configuration. I have a rather old laptop, Asus P4, year 2000. With Antix it's fun working on this computer. For now, back to my problem.
The problem is that I don't have any sound. I checked with another distro, with other distro's the sound works good. With Antix it seems to have some trouble.
I tried:
- fresh install
- run sound configuration
- run sound configuratio again
- rename"sound" in etc/mpodprobe.d to"sound.conf"
- run sound configuration again

It seems that running the soundconfiguration results in an updated"sound" file.
Note: no extension. Renaming it to"sound.conf" did not do the trick.
The content of this files. or these files, is the same as mentioned in one of the topics.

I can't think of any more solutions for my problem.
The Asus has a very common audio-device, CS4229.
Can anyone help me please?

Hello:
Maybe try running alsamixer in a terminal, and make sure that all the volume controls are at 100. It's a very obvious thing and you have probably done this already, but it's the only thing I can think of.

Perhaps others can offer better advice.

Good luck!
Pedro

I remember, sometime ago, a post about debian leaving out some of the sound drivers from their alsa package. Their reason was that they were not"free". Now if this is the cause of your problems you can download the alsa source and install one or all the drivers available from them. The process is painless and will guarantee you have all the latest drivers installed.

After you download and unpack check the readme/install file for instructions. I have done this before and like I said it was painless.

I believe that the left out drivers were Cirrus Logic(csxxxx).

It looks Alsamixer is already using a terminal, on that point no solution unfortunately.

Furthermore I downloaded the Alsa-base package.
I re-configured sound and mixer, but it wasn't the solution I hoped for.
But being a newbie to Antix / Linux I do not know how to continue.

Any suggestions?

a.reinink,

Could we see the output of:

cheers,
oldhoghead

Is this chip a 4229 or 4299? Searching found some mix ups.

What is the output of:

***** lspci | grep -i audio
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)

***** $ lsmod | grep snd
snd_intel8x0m 14348 0
snd_intel8x0 27932 0
snd_ac97_codec 89380 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 3456 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 34720 0
snd_mixer_oss 14208 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 58756 4 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 4484 0
snd_seq_oss 26880 0
snd_seq_midi 7584 0
snd_rawmidi 18592 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 7552 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 41968 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 18440 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 7564 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 42660 11 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 7648 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 8584 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

Hopefully this information brings me closer to a solution.

Reading the output I still can not understand how I came to the conclusion that there would be a CS4299 [not 4229] in my machine. I'll try to find the answer to that question later.

For now, thank you for helping. Any reaction will be appreciated.

Andre Reinink
The Netherlands

Well it looks like your sound card is recognized and the driver is loaded. I would run aumix and double check the levels.

Check alsamixer as well.

I checked the sound by running aumix, and Bingo, the PCM level was low.
Secondly the sound on/off switch which is the same as the volume low/high button [Thanks Asus] was a bit wonky.
I did some maintenance and now I can enjoy listenen music or viewing a movie with sound.

Thanks again!

Andre Reinink
The Netherlands