Re: AC97 onboard Via Apollo Pro, sound not working
On Thursday 09 January 2003 07:09 am, Elijah wrote:
> Hello there,
>
>
> I want to configure my AC97 card since I just removed my c-media to make
> room for my tv-tuner. I added the ac97_codec in my modules to make it
> work, but it doesn't. So I found this alsa thing, downloaded it,
> installed the libraries and tools I left the driver alone since after
> compiling several times it just would'nt work. I've already tried
> sndconfig, worked once with the test but after installing the
> alsa-drivers I don't hear anything anymore ...
>
> here's from lspci:
>
> ------------------------
> Valhalla:/home/elijah# lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo
> PRO133x] (rev 44)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo
> MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South]
> (rev 22)
> 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
> 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 10)
> 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 10)
> 00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
> (rev 30)
> 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio
> Controller (rev 20)
> 00:0f.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev
> 11)
> 00:0f.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 11)
> 00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10
> MBit (rev 31)
> 00:14.0 USB Controller: Lucent Microelectronics: Unknown device 5802
> (rev 10)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device
> 0171 (rev a3)
> --------------------------
>
> I also seem to have soundcore loaded up from lsmod ...
>
> I did what I can, compiled kernel but reverted back to old one, still
> stuck though ... can anybody help?
>
> Elijah
AC97 is a codec, you also need a driver for the sound card.
lsmod on my box shows the following. The es1371 is the driver for my card,
Ensoniq.
es1371 29952 1
gameport 1564 0 [es1371]
ac97_codec 9440 0 [es1371]
sound 54636 0 (unused)
soundcore 3940 6 [es1371 sound]
--
Greg Madden
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