Problems with VIA 8233 Audio
Hi,
I have a Gigabyte KT7VXE motherboard with integrated AC97 audio. As far
as I know, the chip is a VIA 8233. Actually, I am not sure that that one
is the audio chip, but I know that I have it on my mb and it is one of
the available ones in alsa; so I think it is quite probable that it is
the one.
My problem is the following: the chip is not natively supported by the
kernel, and I don't get it to work with alsa (I am using woody). I can
install the right modules using modconf and there everything seems to
work fine. I use KDE as desktop environment; in the configuration dialog
I can then choose Autodetect or ALSA and everything seems to work fine
again. When I click 'test sound' nothng happens at all. If I try
restarting the sound server I get the warning 'cache shutdown while
still active objects in cache'.
I think that the following is happening: the modules install correctly
and KDE (or whatever other app) can connect to the sound system and
output sound; the problem is that the sound server just caches that
sound data instead of playing it.
I cannot use alsaconf because it is meant for alsa-0.5 and not for
alsa-0.9 and does not list my chip. I tried editing the configuration
files manually, but as I don't really know what is going on I probably
made more damage than good.
Can anyone help me, please?
Aaron
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