On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 19:54 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > i Mark. I had a reply back from the guy on the alsa-devel list, that > has the > same machine as you. He's using Suse, not F8, but had no problems > getting > sound working. See below for his reply. Does Suse use pulseaudio? > > <quote> > I'm not aware of any initial problem I might have had. However I > regularly > install drivers from the hg tree so I'm not too sure about actual > versions. > > However at the time I posted about my subwoofer problem I did have > sound and > wasn't even aware there might be problems (apart from the sound being > somewhat "slim", i.e. missing deep frequencies). On the other hand I > usually > use headphones and thus don't recognize that. > > Anyway, after applying the patches you refer to above also my building > subwoofer works as adverticed and I do have another slider when > invoking > alsamixer. So I'd say with alsa 1.0.1[456] it should work. > > So to sum it up: > I have no problems with sound on my XPS M1710 whatsoever. > > Feel free to ask more questions and/or compare configurations. > -- ======================================================================= It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. -- Tom Lehrer ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx