Crystal CS4205 Muted Microphone

[spacey]

Hi, as many people of experienced, I cannot seem to unmute my microphone when I connect to my server.

I have a Crystal CS4205 soundcard in my laptop, which is supported as the Intel i810 driver in the kernel I believe.

I have used Sound Recorder and successfully recorded and played back something. I am not sure if that proves the mic is working or not.

Should I install the Alsa-Drivers (http://psyche.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=1007) ?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you kindly.

[spacey]

well apparently i have the intel_810 kernel module installed, and it seems i can use sound recorder to make a wave file. but still, team speak will not unmute my microphone.

i'm trying to figure out a way to remove the intel_810 drivers... so i can use this alsa rpm i found.

anyone have any experience or advice?

[spacey]

well i got the ALSA drivers installed sort of. for some reason whenever I reboot, the old i810_audio drivers start up, and then i have to do a

rmmod i810_Audio ac97_codec

then

modprobe snd-card-0

before the ALSA drivers load. this is quite annoying, anyone know of a better solution? i already commented out the i810_audio stuff in the /etc/modules.conf but it still starts up.

anyway...

when I run TeamSpeak, it takes over my sound. If I run NeverWinter afterwards, I don't get any sound... what can I do to make them share?

[smallstar]

Hi!

dont you have a dir named /etc/modules?

When you installed alsa, oss emulation did help you to work properly teamspeak?

Thanks

[spacey]

ya, after installing alsa, i could use TS to record and hear others. but it just hogged my sound, when i ran neverwinter nights it wouldn't give me any sound.

[smallstar]

Otherwise, neverwinter works with oss or alsa?
Does ts stop properly?
With other program can you play music, after ts?
With 'lsof |grep /dev/dsp', you can check whether something use your soundcard.