Labtec spin-45 speakers, sound card on mobo, no sound

greenpenguin246 · 01-21-2004, 07:03 PM

I recently installed mandrake 9.1 on my comp. The soundcard is built into the motherboard on this system, the mobo is a chaintech CT-ES 676m "Summit." I have a pair of cheap labtec spearks hooked up to the sound card. Mandrake says that it has a driver installed for these speakers, is it the wrong driver, or what?
-thanks, greenpenguin

kasperhans · 01-22-2004, 04:13 PM

but you tried to use the mixer to pump up volume didnt you?
and if so find out what soundchip your card uses i mean is it an creative one or ... if so which serial number or product numer does it have something like soundblaster enk...

greenpenguin246 · 01-22-2004, 06:09 PM

the manuel says it has an AC ' 97 Codec, does that help? (my first computer build, please excuse the cluelessness...)

kasperhans · 01-22-2004, 06:31 PM

ok im sure you have alsa libs installed so go and find a mixer app in your start panel or go to your shell and perform a su and then type amixer and have a look if it loads then type amixer -h to have a look at your settings but for you its better to get a gnome based mixer prog something like gmixer or so there should be some avaible out there use google or forums for search

greenpenguin246 · 01-23-2004, 05:12 PM

I tried using KMix and turing the volume all the way up, no sound comes out of my speakers though...the cd player plays the cd, and i can hear it through headphones hooked directly to the cd player but no speakers...

greenpenguin246 · 01-23-2004, 08:01 PM

I'm considering just buying a new sound card, if anyone has any suggestions on what works well, or how to fix my current sound, they would be greatly appreciated.