Re: PCI Quirks?

[Matthew Weier O'Phinney <matthew@weierophinney.net>]

-- Thomas H. George,,, <georgeacct@spininternet.com> wrote
(on Friday, 31 January 2003, 02:20 PM -0500):
> I purchased a motherboard with the VIA 82cxxx-based chip.  I complied a 
> 2.4.18 kernel with modular support for this chip - i.e. modules 
> soundcore and ac97_codec.  workbone played a cd but there was no sound. 
> I downloaded I gnome-media and gmix was able to turn up the volume.  I 
> downloaded wavtools but wavp pop.wav hung up.
> 
> That was yesterday.
> 
> Today, after rebooting, I can no longer use gmix; I get an error message 
> that /dev/mixer doesn't exist.
> 
> In /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/VIA-chipset there is a statement 
> that the kernel should include PCI Quirks.  I have stepped through make 
> xconfig and cannot find this option.
> 
> Is there a solution?

I had a a VIA motherboard (but with a P-IV) that had onboard sound. I
used alsa to get sound to work -- and work it did. 

-- 
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
matthew@weierophinney.net