Re: VIA 8233 & ALSA
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On Monday 03 June 2002 01:49 pm, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> 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
Greetings:
Excellent info. I have the same via chip(ette) on this mainboard, and so
far, have been unable to make it function. If you do get yours working with
either drivers, could you drop a note to the list and let us know?
Tnx and best regards.
tatah
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