Clemens Ladisch wrote: > The SoundMax chips are indeed AC'97 codecs (from Analog Devices), but > the driver to use depends on the AC'97 controller. Currently, there > are three types of controllers built into motherboard chipsets; the > drivers for these are snd-intel8x0, snd-via82xx, and snd-atiixp. OK, making sense. > > >>>>dyne:bolic boots and brings up Alsa running something called >>>>snd-atiixp, and lspci showing a bunch of ATI chips, > > > In this case, snd-atiixp is correct. OK, making more sense. > > >>>>but looking on the Alsa page I'm not finding ATI. > > > The entry hasn't been written yet, but this driver doesn't need any > special configuration. Just look at the intel8x0 entry and replace > the module name with snd-atiixp. Makes the most sense! > > > HTH > Clemens > Helps a lot! For Gentoo on this laptop I used ALSA_CARDS="atiixp". The driver built fine first time, is installed and both the built-in speakers and the headphone jack are working now using alsaplayer to play a CD. alsamixer correctly sets volume independently on each. Thanks for your help! Cheers, Mark
