Re: VIA sound problem

2004-10-01 Thread Wim De Smet
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:11:24 -0400, Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Alvin Oga wrote: > > >hi ya jim > > > >On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Jim Lynch wrote: > > > > > > > >>I've been completely unable to get sound to work with Debian and any > >>sound card, ever and I've been running Debian for y

Re: VIA sound problem - exactly

2004-09-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nate On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Nate Duehr wrote: > SuSE does nothing Debian can't do... it just autodetects and hand-hold's > better in this case. yup .. some distro likes to spend their r/d on "hand holding gui" or sometimes broken gui or wrong resulting files > Easy to fire up Su

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-29 Thread Nate Duehr
Jim Lynch wrote: Until I installed SUSE, I had pretty much figured sound and Linux weren't gonna happen. SuSE does nothing Debian can't do... it just autodetects and hand-hold's better in this case. Easy to fire up SuSE, look at the config and copy it back to the Debian partition. Voila... so

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-29 Thread Jim Lynch
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya jim On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Jim Lynch wrote: I've been completely unable to get sound to work with Debian and any sound card, ever and I've been running Debian for years. My last attempt was the testing distro and 2.6.8 on a box with the via 82xxx card build into the MB.

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-29 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:47:17AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:39:02AM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote: > > > > Just as an aside, I installed CUPS and I can't print. It says there > > isn't anything connected to the port, however during install it went out > > and found the p

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jim On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Jim Lynch wrote: > I've been completely unable to get sound to work with Debian and any > sound card, ever and I've been running Debian for years. My last > attempt was the testing distro and 2.6.8 on a box with the via 82xxx > card build into the MB. I fiinal

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:39:02AM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote: > > > I've been completely unable to get sound to work with Debian and any > sound card, ever and I've been running Debian for years. My last > attempt was the testing distro and 2.6.8 on a box with the via 82xxx > card build into the

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-29 Thread Jim Lynch
I've been completely unable to get sound to work with Debian and any sound card, ever and I've been running Debian for years. My last attempt was the testing distro and 2.6.8 on a box with the via 82xxx card build into the MB. I fiinally got it to actually install so the /dev/dsp device was

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-26 Thread Silvan
> If I start arts with alsa support the only thing I get is sound > gibberish (the testsound starts, the first 0.25 second are played and > repeatet for about 20 seconds and then it advances to the necht 0.5 > seconds). > I thought compiling and running sendmail was the real test for an admin...

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-26 Thread jochen
Ok, oss doesn't work. Well, it plays the sound, but it's unusable for games as it is always a little bit behind (the sound of a shot hittung you 0.25 seconds after it hit you is a bit crappy if you try to play ut2004). So I switched back to alsa. I downloaded kernel 2.6.8.1 and tried again. The

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-24 Thread jochen
I had all oss-stuff removed from the kernele and checked the loaded modules via lsmod, all the right modules were loaded. Now that I'm using oss everything is fine. I don't know what the problem was but at least it works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-23 Thread Silvan
On Thursday 23 September 2004 04:07 pm, Carl Fink wrote: > I apologize if someone has already posted this, but I find that on > reboot, the alsa mixer ends up muting random things, including the > PCM volume. I've had this problem too, with different hardware. I twiddled the mixer how I wanted i

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-23 Thread Carl Fink
I apologize if someone has already posted this, but I find that on reboot, the alsa mixer ends up muting random things, including the PCM volume. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-23 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:01:49 +0100, rich lott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had problems too. The kernel kept loading the oss modules, which meant that > the alsa ones didn't work. I took advice from somewhere on the net, which > said the way to stop it was to edit /etc/discover.conf and put a lin

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-23 Thread rich lott
I had problems too. The kernel kept loading the oss modules, which meant that the alsa ones didn't work. I took advice from somewhere on the net, which said the way to stop it was to edit /etc/discover.conf and put a line skip via82xxx_audio which means it will never use that module. Then alsac

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-22 Thread Max
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 01:05, jochen wrote: > I have the following problem: > I'm running kernel 2.6.8. > After installing, configuring and compiling the kernel everything works > fine except sound. > I got a vie-onboard card and it worked perfectly in > Here's the lspci output: > :00:11.

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-22 Thread jochen
Got it. I switched from alsa to oss and everything works perfectly now. Cheers Jochen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-22 Thread jochen
No. AFAIK ALSA is ALSA. I've got a box under my umbrella with one of those VIA things in it, and it works fine. Are you running aRts or esD or some other sound server? That would be my first suspect. Some kind of sharing problem. Nope, no arts and no esd. Those two were also my first su

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-21 Thread Silvan
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 07:05 pm, jochen wrote: > Alsa recognizes the soundcard, after doing a "modprobe via82cxxx_audio" > I can play sound as root. > The problem is that I can only use mplayer to play sound, and mplayer > hangs after playing the file for several seconds (it also hangs when >

VIA sound problem

2004-09-21 Thread jochen
I have the following problem: I'm running kernel 2.6.8. After installing, configuring and compiling the kernel everything works fine except sound. I got a vie-onboard card and it worked perfectly in Here's the lspci output: :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A