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Re: sound on VAIO FX401



On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 07:06:23PM +0000, p wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:35:32AM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote:
> > În data de  1-12-2001, la 18h 59'38", Ionel Mugurel Ciobica scria despre "sound on VAIO FX401":
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I have a VAIO FX401. The lspci command give me:
> > > 
> > > debian:~# lspci
> > > [...]
> > > 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
> > > [...]
> > 
> > 
> > I did not activate yet the sound card. I have tried few solutions, but
> > none worked. I comiled many kernels with many sound drivers, but none
> > are working. As I said the lspci give me: "00:07.5 Multimedia audio
> > controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)".
> > 
> > I put back the xp from the Sony image CD's and I check the proprieties of
> > the sound card. It said:
> > VIA AC'97 Audio Controler (WDM)
> > IO: 1000-10FF, 1C54-1c57, 1C50-1C53,
> > IRQ: 09
> > PCI bus 0, device 7, function 5
> > 
> > 
> >  From the list of the kernel sound drivers the closest one is VIA82CXXX,
> > but it is not working. Some one installed RedHat on the same VAIO FX401
> > and the sound was working without any change. Same persone is using now
> > Suse. The sound was not properly installed, he just needed to run
> > modprobe with the VIA82CXXX driver as argument and it was OK.
> > 
> > I don't want to install other linux distributions just to make my laptop
> > better, I want to stick to Debian.
> > 
> > Please, some suggestions... anything?
> > 
> > Last time I tried to activate the sound with an append line in the
> > lilo.conf, but the xp did not specified the dma and dma2 values.
> > 
> > 
> > Thank you for any help.
> > 
> > Ionel
> > 
> > 
> -- 
> 
> i had to bite the bullet by buying a sound license from:
> 
> http://www.opensound.com/linux.html
> 
> ...nothing else would work for my sony vaio picturebook.  stuggling 
                                                    [oops]  ^^^^^^^^^
                                                          (struggling)
> without sound for a year and a half was long enough.
> 
> i know that this isn't the debian way, but i was desparate.
> 
> hth.
> 
> b.
> 
> //
> 
>

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...sorry, i'm trying to learn dvorak.

b.

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