Re: [Alsa-user] ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI

[John Carlyle-C. <jo...@wo...>]

John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
> I have a Dell Latitude C600 with the above audio hardware.  Alsa 
> recognises it, but I cannot get any actual sound to come out.  I've 
> tried the headphone socket, and I've tried all the settings in 
> alsamixer.  I've also tried change the amp_gpio parameter to the module.
>
>   
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> I'm stuck.  Does anyone have this hardware working, and if so, did you 
> have to do anything special?
>
>   
I should point out that I have seen the hits on Google that imply this 
should work out of the box.  I wondered if I was experiencing a 
regression, so I tried an Ubuntu 7.10 live CD, and the sound works fine 
with no additional user configuration.  The system on which it does 
*not* work is Archlinux (a rolling release distro, for those that aren't 
familiar) on which I currently have alsa-utils 1.0.21 and kernel 2.6.31, 
although it has not worked for some 6 months since I got it and 
installed linux on it so I have probably had a version or two prior to that.