Kent West wrote: > Rebecca Dridan wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 02:13:46AM -0500, Kent West wrote: >> <SNIP> > > >> >> Kent (or anyone else who knows), >> >> How did you get your onboard AC'97 chipset (via8233) working? I've just >> bought a Gigabyte GA-7VRX motherboard with this chip and can't get sound >> working. I'm running woody, with kernel 2.4.19 (from >> kernel-source-2.4.19-1) and I tries installing the alsa packages, but >> every time I got the via8233 module (and it's dependancies) loaded, my >> whole system froze - network, keyboard - hard reset necessary. I can't >> find any relevant messages in the logs. >> >> If it is of any relevance, I'm running the NVIDIA kernel and GLX modules >> for my GeForce 4MX. >> >> If you've got step-by-step instructions, or some hints for where to >> look, I'd appreciate it. > > > > It's been forever since I had to get it working, and I don't have any > step-by-steps, but the general idea was to compile a 2.4.18 kernel, > including module support for the via8233, then apt-get the alsa stuff > (seems like there were three relevant packages -- I'm not at that > machine currently to see what I've got installed; IIRC alsa-modules > was one of them). I think I wound up manually compiling the > alsa-modules (./configure, make, make install), and then modprobing > the resulting via82xxx-snd module. > > I wish I could give you a step-by-step, but I just don't remember. Sorry.
> <snip> Here's some info that I hope will be helpful. Kent westk03[westk]:/home/westk> dpkg --get-selections |grep alsa alsa-base install alsa-source install alsa-utils install alsaconf install westk03[westk]:/home/westk> uname -a Linux westk03 2.4.18 #15 Thu Sep 26 00:36:58 CDT 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux Sound section of /usr/src/linux/.config: # # Sound # CONFIG_SOUND=m # CONFIG_SOUND_BT878 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1 is not set # CONFIG_MIDI_EMU10K1 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_FUSION is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_CS4281 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ESSSOLO1 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO3 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ICH is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_RME96XX is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_SONICVIBES is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDCLAS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDPIN is not set CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX=m # CONFIG_MIDI_VIA82CXXX is not set CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m # CONFIG_SOUND_TRACEINIT is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_DMAP is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_AD1816 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_SGALAXY is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ACI_MIXER is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_CS4232 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_SSCAPE is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_GUS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_VMIDI is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_TRIX is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MSS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MPU401 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_NM256 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MAD16 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_PAS is not set # CONFIG_PAS_JOYSTICK is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_PSS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_SB is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_AWE32_SYNTH is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_WAVEFRONT is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MAUI is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA1 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA2 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_YMFPCI is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_YMFPCI_LEGACY is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_UART6850 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_AEDSP16 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_TVMIXER is not set I'm pulling from the Testing (Sarge) branch. westk03[westk]:/usr/src> ls -l total 10960 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7987200 May 13 10:53 alsa-driver.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1811893 Sep 8 14:16 alsa-driver.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 163560 Sep 26 00:40 alsa-modules-2.4.18_0.9.0rc1+2+p0+10.00.Custom_i386.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 1100138 Sep 26 00:39 kernel-image-2.4.18_10.00.Custom_i386.deb drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Sep 26 00:39 kernel-source-2.4.18 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 20 Apr 1 2002 linux -> kernel-source-2.4.18 -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 116400 Sep 26 00:39 lm-sensors-2.4.18_2.6.3-1+10.00.Custom_i386.deb drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 26 00:26 modules westk03[westk]:/usr/src> ls modules/ alsa-driver lm-sensors westk03[westk]:/lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/sound> ls acore drivers i2c isa pci synth westk03[westk]:/lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/sound> ls drivers/ mpu401 snd-dummy.o snd-serial-u16550.o snd-virmidi.o opl3 snd-mtpav.o snd-serialmidi.o westk03[westk]:/lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/sound> ls pci/ ac97 pdplus snd-ens1371.o snd-maestro3.o trident ali5451 rme9652 snd-es1938.o snd-rme32.o ymfpci cs46xx snd-als4000.o snd-es1968.o snd-rme96.o emu10k1 snd-cmipci.o snd-fm801.o snd-sonicvibes.o korg1212 snd-cs4281.o snd-ice1712.o snd-via686.o nm256 snd-ens1370.o snd-intel8x0.o snd-via8233.o westk03[westk]:/lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel> ls drivers/sound/ ac97_codec.o sound.o soundcore.o via82cxxx_audio.o westk03[westk]:/home/westk> lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8367 [KT266] 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8367 [KT266 AGP] 00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c325 [ViRGE] (rev 06) 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1b) 00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1b) 00:11.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1b) 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 30) westk03[westk]:/home/westk> sudo lsmod Password: Module Size Used by Not tainted snd-seq-oss 23008 0 (autoclean) snd-seq-midi-event 3112 0 (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss] snd-seq 37424 2 (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-seq-device 3904 0 (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss snd-seq] snd-mixer-oss 9052 0 (autoclean) snd-pcm-oss 35972 0 (autoclean) snd-via8233 4812 0 snd-pcm 49440 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-via8233] snd-timer 10376 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-ac97-codec 23236 0 [snd-via8233] snd 25132 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-seq-device snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-via8233 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec] soundcore 3556 5 [snd] vfat 9500 1 (autoclean) fat 29688 0 (autoclean) [vfat] westk03[westk]:/home/westk> less /etc/modules auto #vfat #smbfs #nfs #lp #serial #ppp #sb #via82cxxx_audio westk03[westk]:/etc/modutils> ls 0keep aliases alsa-path autofs ppp actions aliases.dpkg-dist arch paths setserial westk03[westk]:/etc/modutils> less aliases alias char-major-14 soundcore . . . # ALSA Aliases alias snd-card-0 snd-via8233 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 # OSS/Free portion - card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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