Alsa Sound Driver Problem

[Kam Leo]

On 12/4/05, Peter Gordon <admin at ramshacklestudios.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 05:24 +0200, Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT wrote:
> > hi all. (its me again, the one who has FC1)
> > my sound card :
> > Vendor : Intel Corp.
> > Model : 82801EB AC'97 Audio Controller
> > Module : i810_audio
> >
> > i installed everything that contains the word 'alsa' in it.
> > but still not working :(
> > did some analysis on some forums found by google.
> > but theres no remedy :p
> > do u have any suggestion about this ?
>
> Fedora Core 1 uses a 2.4-based kernel and the no-defunct OSS/Free
> (Open Sound System). Thus, ALSA (the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture),
> which effectively has replaced OSS/Free in the 2.6 kernel series, is
> not compatible with it. (Actually, I think it *is* compatible with 2.4,
> but since the OSS/Free kernel module for the hardware is loaded, the
> hardware resources are reserved and so ALSA can't drive it.)
>
> If you can't feasibly upgrade your FC1 box (as you mentioned in another
> post, it was for school?), then I would suggest posting these types of
> questions to the fedora-legacy-list, as FC1 reached its "end of life"
> long ago and now is supported only for security updates and bug fixes by
> the Fedora Legacy team. See:
> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
>
> Hope that helps.
> --
> Peter Gordon (codergeek42)

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Mehmet,

Your problem was probably solved a long time ago either in this list
or in another linux distro's forum. Use Google Search and you will
find the answer. Don't use the Fedora-list search. It's rather poor.