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Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl> writes: |
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> The VIA 8237 is an onboard sound chip. I have one myself. As such, it's |
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> controlled by the BIOS. Since you have previously not used sound on this |
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> machine, it's within the realm of possibility (imo) that you disabled |
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> the sound chip in the BIOS, which -- if that was the case-- would |
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> possibly explain why the card is not being found when you actually try |
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> to use it. |
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> Have you checked, or would you check your BIOS and confirm that the |
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> onboard sound is enabled there? |
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Have not, but will on next reboot. However the chances are slim to |
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none. This box only began its career as a gentoo box a few weeks ago |
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when my existing box gave up the chase ... a disk controller problem I |
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was to dumb to solve and scrapped the whole thing. |
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This box (athlon64 +3200) was previously an winxp video crunching |
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(Edit and transpose) box. And had sound working all the time. |
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I've made no changes bios wise. But will report what I find later. |
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