nVidia, AC97 sound, and UDEV. My face is very red!!!

[David A. Cobb]

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> David A. Cobb wrote:
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>> Names of available sound cards:
>> nForce2
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> That's correct. That's the human-friendly identifier for your sound
> device. It does not need to (and won't) match the filename of the sound
> driver.
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>> And as silent as can be.
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> amixer set 'IEC958 Playback Switch' off && amixer set 'External
> Amplifier' off
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That got "Unable to find simple control 'IEC958 Playback Switch'", however
# amixer cset name='IEC958 Playback Switch' off
worked.

NOW, why my face is red.
Half the problem was solved by System=>Preferences=>Sound and setting 
all the options to ALSA.  Out of the box, some were "nforce" and that 
didn't work.  The only setup that got a positive sound test was the ALSA 
ones.  Mildly curious, since nVidia formerly said their NVSOUND driver 
was OSS; still, whatever works.

BUT, before I got that positive sound test, it helped greatly to plug 
the speakers into "Line-Out" instead of "Line-In."  The color coding 
seemed to match the wrong way.

Thanks for the help.