sound problems - still

[Dave]

On Thursday 27 January 2005 09:18 pm, Mike Thatcher wrote:
> Well I finally got sound working.  Using gnome volume control, when I
> set the the "Headpone" & "PCM" to max and unmute I finally got sound
> (yea). The master/master mono sliders have no effect.  The volume
> control which shows in the panel at the top of the gnome desktop has no
> effect (I don't know what this is the front end for). However the volume
>
> Could someone explay why "Headphone" and not "Master" controls the volume?

 Apparently some cards have quirks? Once I added "options snd-via82xx 
dxs_support=4 ac97_quirk=1" to my modprobe.conf, control moved from Headphone 
to Master for me. 

 PS: The volume control on the gnome desktop is just an interface to the alsa 
system, just like alsamixer. Or kmix, or whatever ...