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jdc18
May 3rd, 2008, 07:10 PM
Hi, i am a gentoo user i recently bought the Gazv5, i installed gentoo, almost everything works except for the audio. I compiled the alsa support in the kernel, the systems seems to recognize the card when i run alsaconf, then i use alsamixer to set the volume to the top.When i run amarok or any other program that uses the sound card, it doesnt complain about the card, they just start playing but i can hear any noise.

I am using kernel 2.6.24, i have seen that the system76 driver has something to do with the audio.
Do you have any suggestions, should i use the alsadriver that dont come with the kernel.
Amranu
May 4th, 2008, 02:01 PM
Uh, this is a Ubuntu distro support forum...
ctsdownloads
May 4th, 2008, 08:03 PM
Hi, i am a gentoo user i recently bought the Gazv5, i installed gentoo, almost everything works except for the audio. I compiled the alsa support in the kernel, the systems seems to recognize the card when i run alsaconf, then i use alsamixer to set the volume to the top.When i run amarok or any other program that uses the sound card, it doesnt complain about the card, they just start playing but i can hear any noise.

I am using kernel 2.6.24, i have seen that the system76 driver has something to do with the audio.
Do you have any suggestions, should i use the alsadriver that dont come with the kernel.

The sysytem76 driver package was designed for the Debian based distro, Ubuntu. So it will be of little help to you as this is not what the systems were pre-installed with. Your best best to be honest, it to try the Gentoo forums as they will better equipped to help I suspect. Good luck!
jdc18
May 4th, 2008, 10:29 PM
I know this is a ubuntu support forum but i was hopping to get help in any direction. It doesnt matter, i finally manage to get all my hardware working, even the audio.

I am going to write a howto soon, to help any others who dont want to use ubuntu,(linux is a matter of choise isn it?) althought this forum was really helpfull. I installed the latest alsa drivers (not the ones from the kernel) and they work really well.