As I mentioned the other day, I’ve just put togeter my new Athlon 64 X2 Linux system. The install went okay, but when I got around to connecting speakers I didn’t hear anything. I ran in to this before and it was just a muted sound channel. So I ran alsamixer and made sure everything was turned up to around 70%. Nothing. Someone on a forum said they had the same chipset and their problem went away with a reboot. I don’t believe in rebooting to fix things on Linux, but I was busy having a conversation at the same time so I tried it. I noticed that there was a sound played when I logged in to KDE. The thing is, there was also a high-pitched, shrill screeching noise at the same time. I tested the speakers on another computer and they were fine. I tried tweaking the volume in KMix and after that no sounds played for anything.
I got it working in the end, for the short answer just skip to the end. Read the rest of “Sound Quirk with the Nvidia nForce 430 and Asus M2NPV-VM”…