HDA nVidia -- Alsa vs OSS

mrunion · 2010-02-13 02:48:19

I have an MSi Wind Top All-In-One. The machine uses the nVidia ION chipset. This machine has an HDA nVidia ALC888 sound card, and ALSA picked it up fine. The card is detected and seems to operate fine. All appropriate items are unmuted, etc. When I plug a headset into the speaker jack I can hear sound. The front (built-in) speakers do not work. I have tried different "options" lines, models, etc.

I installed OSS4 and the front (built-in) speakers work fine, and so does the headset.

I am currently using OSS, but in a way would prefer ALSA -- I don't know why, though.

Does anyone out there have a working MSi Wind Top All-In-One using the nVidia chipset/ALC888 and have both headsets and built-in speakers working?

davidgurvich · 2010-02-17 00:16:50

Does the nouveau driver work with this graphics chipset? I was having kernel crashes and core dumps with random system hard locks when using the binary nvidia driver. With nouveau instead of nvidia there seems to be no issues using oss4.

Also, have you tried ossxmix to make certain that the channels you want to use are unmuted?

mrunion · 2010-02-22 01:21:57

I think you may have misunderstood. Using ALSA, the headphone jack on the back works just fine, but no matter what I try, I cannot get sound from the built-in speakers. Using OSS all the sound works fine. I just prefer ALSA. I want to try and get ALSA to work like OSS, and that's where I'm stuck.

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#1 2010-02-13 02:48:19

HDA nVidia -- Alsa vs OSS

#2 2010-02-17 00:16:50

Re: HDA nVidia -- Alsa vs OSS

#3 2010-02-22 01:21:57

Re: HDA nVidia -- Alsa vs OSS

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