Re: Sound for onboard VIA chipset?

[Jens Gecius <jens@gecius.de>]

Jeffrey Nowakowski <jeffno@ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> My motherboard has a builtin sound card using the VIA VT82C686A
> chipset, but when I try to load sound support with:
> 
> # modprobe via82cxxx
> 
> I get the following:
> 
> /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o: insmod via82cxxx failed
> 
> Any ideas on how to get this working?  I'm running debian 2.2r2 with
> the prebuilt 2.2.17 kernel.

The vt82c686a is most likely not responsible for sound. I've a
gigabyte vxd7 running here which uses that chipset, but for sound,
there's another one: ct5880.

And that creative chipset is basically an ens1371. Take the
appropriate module from alsa and it should work.

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