No Sound on Intel 845 chipset

[banjo]

I have a new Mandrake 9.1 installation

on an Intel D845PESV motherboard. This

board has the embedded sound in the 845

chipset.

 

Our sound works great some of the time

and is silent at other times. This

seems to be random, and reboots and

logins do not fix it.

 

Sometimes our Quake3 game tells us that

the device /dev/dsp (which is a symlink

to /dev/sound/dsp) is busy and it

then runs silently. Sometimes it

works OK and we get sound with the

game.

 

I have tried killing the artsd to

see if that will free up the device,

but it does not help. I have also tried

running the app using artsdsp program

to vector the sound through the mixer,

but the program simply tells us

"Your sound card cannot do this."

 

Does anybody know what is going on

with the sound as it is played

on the 845 chipset?

 

Also, if the answer is "Get a sound

card", can anybody recommend a card

that is known to work on Mandrake

9.1.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Banjo

(_)=='=~

[zenrox]

check to see if your esd is running caue if ya kill that it will come back i have that same prob and that seems to fix it but esd seems to auto run on its own cant figuer it out how to stop it from running

i am also using the alsa drivers for that card