My daughter's machine has an integrated sound card which works fine for most things. The only problem is for some of the Java based games where there is no sound. For the last year her choice was to live with no sound or if my wife was not using her machine then play on that machine.
When going through my spare part bin I found an old sound card from a Compaq machine I stripped down. It was a PCI card and I checked my daughter's machine to see if it had a spare slot. It did have a spare slot and I installed the card. I didn't completely close up the box just in case Linux didn't recognize the card. When I booted I did get a message that AUMIX was not found. I went into the control center and selected 'Hardware'. In hardware I went to the 'Configure Hardware' area and then I picked the soundcard area. All I had to do was pick the right driver for the card and then I shut down the machine. I probably didn't need to do that, but, I had to close up the box and reconnect the cables and that was the safest thing to do.
When the machine rebooted we had sound. The last thing I had to do was select the master channel in KMIX and the sound card worked perfectly. We now have complete sound in all of the Java based games.
Total time for doing this fix: 15 minutes.
Total cost: $0.00
If you are having problems with sound with an integrated system you can check out using a PCI sound card if you have a free PCI slot available. The cards go for around $30 for new, or, if you have spares then you can recycle an old card.
After posting all of the things I did for installing the new PCI soundcard I figured I should put up a few screen prints showing the system and the configuration settings I used to make it work in LInux.
