Re: onboard Ac'97 chipset was: Re: problem with sound card from a newbie
Kent West wrote:
Rebecca Dridan wrote:
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 02:13:46AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
<SNIP>
Kent (or anyone else who knows),
How did you get your onboard AC'97 chipset (via8233) working? I've just
bought a Gigabyte GA-7VRX motherboard with this chip and can't get sound
working. I'm running woody, with kernel 2.4.19 (from
kernel-source-2.4.19-1) and I tries installing the alsa packages, but
every time I got the via8233 module (and it's dependancies) loaded, my
whole system froze - network, keyboard - hard reset necessary. I can't
find any relevant messages in the logs.
If it is of any relevance, I'm running the NVIDIA kernel and GLX modules
for my GeForce 4MX.
If you've got step-by-step instructions, or some hints for where to
look, I'd appreciate it.
It's been forever since I had to get it working, and I don't have any
step-by-steps, but the general idea was to compile a 2.4.18 kernel,
including module support for the via8233, then apt-get the alsa stuff
(seems like there were three relevant packages -- I'm not at that
machine currently to see what I've got installed; IIRC alsa-modules
was one of them). I think I wound up manually compiling the
alsa-modules (./configure, make, make install), and then modprobing
the resulting via82xxx-snd module.
I wish I could give you a step-by-step, but I just don't remember. Sorry.
<snip>
Here's some info that I hope will be helpful.
Kent
westk03[westk]:/home/westk> dpkg --get-selections |grep alsa
alsa-base install
alsa-source install
alsa-utils install
alsaconf install
westk03[westk]:/home/westk> uname -a
Linux westk03 2.4.18 #15 Thu Sep 26 00:36:58 CDT 2002 i686 unknown
unknown GNU/Linux
Sound section of /usr/src/linux/.config:
#
# Sound
#
CONFIG_SOUND=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_BT878 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1 is not set
# CONFIG_MIDI_EMU10K1 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_FUSION is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_CS4281 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ESSSOLO1 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO3 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ICH is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_RME96XX is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SONICVIBES is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDCLAS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDPIN is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX=m
# CONFIG_MIDI_VIA82CXXX is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_TRACEINIT is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_DMAP is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_AD1816 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SGALAXY is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ACI_MIXER is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_CS4232 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SSCAPE is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_GUS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_VMIDI is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_TRIX is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MPU401 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_NM256 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MAD16 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_PAS is not set
# CONFIG_PAS_JOYSTICK is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_PSS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SB is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_AWE32_SYNTH is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_WAVEFRONT is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MAUI is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA1 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA2 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_YMFPCI is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_YMFPCI_LEGACY is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_UART6850 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_AEDSP16 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_TVMIXER is not set
I'm pulling from the Testing (Sarge) branch.
westk03[westk]:/usr/src> ls -l
total 10960
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7987200 May 13 10:53 alsa-driver.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1811893 Sep 8 14:16 alsa-driver.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root src 163560 Sep 26 00:40
alsa-modules-2.4.18_0.9.0rc1+2+p0+10.00.Custom_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root src 1100138 Sep 26 00:39
kernel-image-2.4.18_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Sep 26 00:39 kernel-source-2.4.18
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 20 Apr 1 2002 linux ->
kernel-source-2.4.18
-rw-r--r-- 1 root src 116400 Sep 26 00:39
lm-sensors-2.4.18_2.6.3-1+10.00.Custom_i386.deb
drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 26 00:26 modules
westk03[westk]:/usr/src> ls modules/
alsa-driver lm-sensors
westk03[westk]:/lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/sound> ls
acore drivers i2c isa pci synth
westk03[westk]:/lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/sound> ls drivers/
mpu401 snd-dummy.o snd-serial-u16550.o snd-virmidi.o
opl3 snd-mtpav.o snd-serialmidi.o
westk03[westk]:/lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/sound> ls pci/
ac97 pdplus snd-ens1371.o snd-maestro3.o trident
ali5451 rme9652 snd-es1938.o snd-rme32.o ymfpci
cs46xx snd-als4000.o snd-es1968.o snd-rme96.o
emu10k1 snd-cmipci.o snd-fm801.o snd-sonicvibes.o
korg1212 snd-cs4281.o snd-ice1712.o snd-via686.o
nm256 snd-ens1370.o snd-intel8x0.o snd-via8233.o
westk03[westk]:/lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel> ls drivers/sound/
ac97_codec.o sound.o soundcore.o via82cxxx_audio.o
westk03[westk]:/home/westk> lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8367 [KT266]
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8367 [KT266 AGP]
00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c325 [ViRGE] (rev 06)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1b)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1b)
00:11.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1b)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97
Audio Controller (rev 30)
westk03[westk]:/home/westk> sudo lsmod
Password:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-seq-oss 23008 0 (autoclean)
snd-seq-midi-event 3112 0 (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 37424 2 (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss
snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-seq-device 3904 0 (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss snd-seq]
snd-mixer-oss 9052 0 (autoclean)
snd-pcm-oss 35972 0 (autoclean)
snd-via8233 4812 0
snd-pcm 49440 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-via8233]
snd-timer 10376 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 23236 0 [snd-via8233]
snd 25132 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event
snd-seq snd-seq-device snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-via8233 snd-pcm
snd-timer snd-ac97-codec]
soundcore 3556 5 [snd]
vfat 9500 1 (autoclean)
fat 29688 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
westk03[westk]:/home/westk> less /etc/modules
auto
#vfat
#smbfs
#nfs
#lp
#serial
#ppp
#sb
#via82cxxx_audio
westk03[westk]:/etc/modutils> ls
0keep aliases alsa-path autofs ppp
actions aliases.dpkg-dist arch paths setserial
westk03[westk]:/etc/modutils> less aliases
alias char-major-14 soundcore
. . .
# ALSA Aliases
alias snd-card-0 snd-via8233
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
# OSS/Free portion - card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
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