no sound with alsa

[Justin Zygmont]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Marc Deslauriers wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 17:51 -0800, Justin Zygmont wrote:
>> I've been trying to get sound going with this Compaq Deskpro EN 866, and
>> everything seems to load right except there is no sound.  I've used
>> alsamixer to unmute the sound but nothing still.  Also does anyone know if
>> there is a program that will read what the sound device is right off
>> the chip.  I'm almost certain snd_intel8x0 is the correct module.  I'm
>> wondering what to try next?  any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>
> Try playing with "Headphone Jack Sense" and/or "Line Jack Sense" in the
> mixer. I have to mute both for sound to work.

thanks!  as soon as I muted it, it worked, and now I can unmute it and it 
still blasts sound.  and louder than windoze too.