Hi again,
I admit I did not even try the RealTek website for the drivers. It is so rare
to find Free drivers on its manufacturer web site that I did not even try.
Well, so as far as I understood, in fact they are just using the drivers
provided in the ALSA project. So I guess the drivers are free.
In order to make my soundcard work, I just followed the instructions they
gave. Here they are :
Step 1. You must have full configured source for the Linux kernel.
Step 2. Uncompress the source code
a. tar xfvj alcsound.tar.bz2
or b. unbzip2 alcsound.tar.bz2
tar -xvf alcsound.tar
Step 3. Turn on sound support (soundcore module)
Step 4. Complied source code
a. ./Configure
b. make install
c. ./snddevices
Step 5. Edit your /etc/modules.conf or conf.modules depending on the
Distribution
(Please refer to the attached modules.conf)
Step 6. reboot your machine
About the attached module.conf file, I provide a copy here for more
convenience :
#alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio //remark this line, this is default audio
driver
#====== added those lines =============
alias char-major-116 snd
options snd major=116 cards_limit=1
#--- Intel 8x0 and SiS 7012 ----------
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-intel8x0 index=0 id="ICH"
#--- Via8233 and Via686A/B -------------------
#alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
#options snd-via82xx index=0 id="VIA"
#------------------------------------------------------
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
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
#=================================
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null
2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1
|| :
Please not that all mixer channels are muted by default. You must use a native
or OSS mixer program to unmute appropriate channels.
And it is now working fine :-). Well it is not working with KDE yet but I
guess it is because I have not installed the arts-Alsa drivers so it should
be working soon.
Hope this will help other people in my case.
Le Mercredi 12 Février 2003 16:04, Gemini a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I recently bought a motherboard Gigabyte GA-7VA, which had an intergrated
> audio device. According to its documentation, it is a chipset Realtek
> ALC650.
>
> I do not manage to have any sound from it as I found no driver that could
> correspond to that card. Also, I did not find anything about it in this
> mailing list archive, only about Realtek network cards ;-)
>
> Could anyone help me on that issue ?? What shall I use to have this sound
> chip working ?
>
> Gemini
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