{"id":95,"date":"2007-09-22T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/09\/22\/sound-on-linux-has-some-quirks-left\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T09:39:34","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T07:39:34","slug":"sound-on-linux-has-some-quirks-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/09\/22\/sound-on-linux-has-some-quirks-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound on Linux has some quirks left"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a stupid person.<\/p>\n

When I bought a new PC the last time, I went for a ASUS M2NPV-MX motherboard with built-in\"ASUS sound and nvidia graphics. I had been told that the nvidia open source driver is fine enough for 2D graphics, and since I never game or anything I’m perfectly fine with 2D-only.<\/p>\n

Ok, it didn’t take me long to realize two things about my motherboard:<\/p>\n

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  1. The built-in audio<\/strong> “nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio” is not supported <\/strong>by Linux\/ALSA. It seems to detect it fine and it can show what it is and everything but it can’t produce any sound.<\/li>\n
  2. The open source nVidia driver does not support DVI in resolutions beyond 1280×1024<\/strong>, and it made me wanna cry. I switched to VGA instead, only to realize that the analog output on this board is really noticeably worse than my previous and much older trustworthy Matrox card. (New \"Mute\"PCI-Express board in the pipe.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There’s nobody to blame but myself. Lessons for next time: check the audio support<\/strong> better and do not go with nVidia<\/strong> graphics (at all) until they have a good open source driver – and really really check this. (No need to tell me there’s a binary-only nvidia driver, I know about it but I hate it and I hate the inconveniences dealing with binary drivers cause when you upgrade your system etc.)<\/p>\n

    Funnily, the motherboard has built-in Ethernet (of course) but I don’t normally use that, as I’m on 802.11g only. My work computer is on the upper floor and my (24 mbit) ADSL connection is downstairs and I like not having to connect all my computers with cables running all over.<\/p>\n

    \"MusicSo, back to the story, to get sound for my box I got an old SoundBlaster PCI card from a friend (hej Kjell) and inserted it in the last available PCI slot (the other slot has the wifi card).<\/p>\n

    Now, when I upgrade to a fresh new kernel version with Debian unstable the system boots up and defaults to the (detected but not working built-in) hda_intel stuff, and I must run alsaconf <\/em>to select my ens1371-equipped SoundBlaster instead. But this is not enough. After I’ve ran alsaconf <\/em>I can’t get any sound out still, but I have to reboot and when it comes up again I must run aumixer <\/em>and pull up the master volume and wham, now I have sound…<\/p>\n

    I’m quite sure this can be fixed in another way, but trying to learn this and figure how I can repair my situation to always work fine in the future is a mighty task that I haven’t yet been able to overcome. I really should get involved in the ALSA project one day…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’m a stupid person. When I bought a new PC the last time, I went for a ASUS M2NPV-MX motherboard with built-in sound and nvidia graphics. I had been told that the nvidia open source driver is fine enough for 2D graphics, and since I never game or anything I’m perfectly fine with 2D-only. Ok, … Continue reading Sound on Linux has some quirks left<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}