On Sunday 12 February 2006 16:15, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Sunday 12 February 2006 16:06, BandiPat wrote:
Thanks Bruce, I am investigating this now and will return with some info. Finally got a tech support person to enlighten me about the audio though. Seems there is no hardware control over the audio or speakers on this unit. Everything is controlled via software drivers made for Windows. I doubt anyone has built anything for Linux in regards to that. I wonder if installing the driver via Wine would suffice?
I really think that Linux can handle the audio.
A quick google for "linux Gateway M520" brought this up at the top of the list:
================================================= i810 chipsets are horrid chipsets.. I've had no end of problems trying to get ANY os using those things. I had an i810 in a compaq desk pro en at work and I had to compile CVS releases (to get fixes now in 1.0.7 and up) of alsa just to get the sound to correctly pipe out the external speaker jack instead of the internal Speaker..
If you want to get sound on the i810 w/ WBEL/CentOS you will need to download, compile, and install Alsa from alsa-project.org the latest release should work perfectly with i810 on that laptop. ==============================================
Now this was dated a year ago.... so the Alsa in 10.0 should do the trick. If you're running something older, you could go get the latest alsa libs and drivers. Installing them isn't a big job. ========= Running lSuSE 10.0, so the alsa is indeed up to date for this task.
Yes, I've already been there! I've googled my heart out about it, but have yet to find anything worthwhile for this laptop. As I mentioned, I think Linux has the sound working, but not being able to activate the speakers via hardware, makes it near impossible. As I mentioned, I might try using wine for the windows drivers just to test, unless another user here with that same model has news about how to get it going under Linux. Thanks for the investigation though. Lee