Chris wrote:

> Hello members and nonmembers alike,
> I recently installed Slack 10 and one of the trouble spots is the sound.
> After some finagling I got a squeek of sound to come out of the speekers.
> I've checked them and they work fine. I ran alsaconf and the output
> matched that of lspci and other HW monitoring programs. I ran alsamixer,
> alsactrl, etc and raised the volume to max. I believe its a module issue,
> but I don't know what the configuration should be. I've looked at the
> gigabyte website and that is no help, ALSA doesn't have anything specific
> to my motherboard, modprobe only told me the parameters (as did ALSA) and
> their value ranges. Nothing told me were I could look to find what I
> needed to set the parameters to.
>
> Thank you,
> Chrisvia

Just as an experiment, why not try the OSS driver and see if it works? The
module is via82cxxx_audio and might work where ALSA fails. Worth a shot if
you're not some kind of sound engineer