The Official AC97/Via Onboard Sound Problem Thread Thingie

[Stephen]

After use the ;

# /etc/init.d
# ./alsa-autoconfig

Sound works fine,but unfortunately I have to do this now everytime when I start up the computer again, what to do to let this been set permanently so I don`t have to set
this everytime?

Read my post of July 20th in this thread.

[paradocs]

Hi WimG and All,

The above sugestion should get you going.
But if you run from CD as I do, then you need
to put a script on your floppy or persistent home.

The trick I use is take advantage of the fact
that when KDE starts, a script you place in /home/knoppix/.kde/Autostart/
gets run automatically.

You may name you script with a .sh extention
such as MyStartUp.sh

The first line of such a script is:

#!/bin/sh

Save the configurateion and a persistent home.

Best Wishes
paradocs

[WimG]

I found kind off answer on another forum here
I solved this problem by opening
bootmisc.sh in etc/init.d with kedit while working as root
and add at the end off the file


# alsa working after new startup
cd /etc/init.d
./alsa-autoconfig


So after this it should be working every startup, Important make a enter after last sentence.
Sometimes for example when I want to play a soundfile or record sound with audacity I get
messages like; can't play back or dev/dsp can't opening device
This can be solved by opening configurationcenter sound and media soundsystem
and not let aRTs-soundserver start at startup KDE
I cannnot still let it work all together, I post this because maybe others can use it.
I am using Knoppix 3.2 from may (Dutch version) and still not so familiar with Linux,
maybe with newer version off Knoppix it is already solved.

[WimG]

Hi paradox,

Sorry,I placed it before I readed your answer, thanks anyway, what I did
you should only do after you installed knoppix on your hard disk with alsa.