Chris Mauritz wrote: > 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). :-) > Hate to follow-up my own posting, but... Out of nowhere, kudzu informed me that it "found" the VIA chipset when I tried using that again. And now, audio magically works. I didn't change anything other than removing the soundblaster card and turning the integrated sound back on in the motherboard bios. Very odd.... Cheers,