Re: getting sound started
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 05:10:56PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> welll... I did lspci -vv my system, and got a positive response on the
> audio card:
>
> 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio
> Controller (rev 40)
> Subsystem: Avance Logic Inc.: Unknown device 4720
> Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 10
> Region 0: I/O ports at b800 [size=256]
> Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
> Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>
> But I confess I'm not sure where to go from here. Alsa doesn't seem to
> support this card (unless I'm mistaken); and in any event alsa-base
> wouldn't install with dpkg (couldn't find the snd module, it said).
> I've installed the ac97 modules in the kernel, but haven't tried a major
> recompile for fear of screwing up my already-delicate system. Any
> hints? thanks loads,
I'm not entirely sure of which driver to use, but after going through
the kernel source, I have a hunch that "modprobe via82cxxx_audio" might
work, although you can test out different drivers with the help of
sndconfig (useful program, helped me find the right midi driver for my
system).
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Seneca
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