Hi there,
I'm trying to repurpose an unused machine (athlon XP 3000+) for my young daughter to use. It's on a motherboard with a VIA KT880 chipset and VIA integrated soundcard (VIA 8237). The card seems to be detected during boot time and shows up in the system log, but when I try to actually use the sound card within Gnome, there's no sound. The device is detected, but there's no sound.
So I figured this may be an "oddball" chipset, so I disabled the onboard sound device and installed a vanilla Soundblaster Live! card. Again, the card seems to be detected by the kernel at boot time, but there's no sound and the soundcard detection utility reports "no sound card detected." Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated since my daughter is now camped at my expensive laptop so she can play tux racer (a great game for kids, BTW). :-)
Cheers,