Re: VIA 8233 & ALSA
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Bert van Ooijen wrote:
> As a newbie, I've been struggling to get my VIA 8233 onboard sound
> working on my freshly installed Debian Woody system.
According to the Documentation/sound/VIA-chipset file in the linux src
directory, the VIA chipset is flaky (even under other OS's); but that file
does describe the workaround which has been implemented.
[...]
> According to everyone I've got to install the ALSA package, which I
> did.
I have an OPL3 chipset in my laptop, and spent a very frustrating week
trying to get it to work with ALSA and a 2.4.18 kernel. No combination of
configs worked, so I abandoned ALSA in favor of kernel-based sound, and it
worked. After reading that Doc file, you may find that's the way for you
to go too.
> Maybe someone can write a good installation script/manual/howto etc.
> to once and for all settle this subject?
I'm no newbie, but the ALSA documentation seems to me to presume too
much! Since you already know how to reconfigure your kernel, you may find
compiling VIA support into the kernel more intuitive!
Patrick
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