[Alsa-user] SiS 7012 : No PCM sound (module intel8x0)

[Jesse M. <jl...@co...>]

Laurent writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I've a SiS 7012 sound card on my laptop (in fact, integrated in the chipset SiS 650/961 and with AC97 decoder Realtek 201) and although this card is supposed to work, i've no pcm sound (like mp3, windows manager, etc.). The mixer works fine, i can move the slider, i can hear audio CD, xmms for example seems to produce sound but nothing... (and of course volume, pcm and all the others are unmuted and with 100%)
 > 
 > The only way i've found to have sound is to load and unload the OSS commercial drivers (which works perfectly) before starting alsa !
 > 
 > Any solution ?

Are you using the alsa-oss compatibility library?  Are you getting
complaints from the window manager about being unable to find /dev/dsp?
With some versions of KDE it depends on libasound.so.1 whereas recent
0.9.x versions of ALSA provide libasound.so.2.  What I did as a
temporary solution is made a link from libasound.so.2 -> libasound.so.1.  
In general you should not do this because the major verison is
different, but I did it and it work fine for me.  I got some
occasional errors from KDE apps.  Hope this helps.