On Woody: (No) Sound with VIA 686a Southbridge, AC 97
'ello, this is my first time to the list. "Sorry"
ahead of time if I step on any toes.
I've had this large tangle with getting my sound to
work. I know it works, I had it working before with
support compiled into the kernel... but I recompiled
the kernel, and forgot the working settings and didn't
save the config, so it's as good as gone. All I know
is what doesn't work, and that _it can_.
My arrangement:
I have the 2.4.18-i686 kernel. Woody is my package
set.
snip of lspci -v:
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00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686
[Apollo Super South] (rev 1b)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82686/A
PCI to ISA Bridge
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel,
latency 0
...
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies,
Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 21)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio
Controller
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
I/O ports at cc00 [size=256]
I/O ports at d000 [size=4]
I/O ports at d400 [size=4]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
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My indicator of success/failure:
Everytime KDE logs in an account, I get the message
that /dev/dsp cannot be opened, no such device. The
file exists (it's /dev/dsp --> /dev/dsp0). I've
already chmod 775'd /devdsp, and I'm assigned to the
"audio" group. If this message doesn't show up, I've
succeeded.
Here's what's happened as best I can recount:
In kernel compiling, I've attempted using:
Sound card support (obviously)
Creative SBLive! (EMU10K1)
Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI 97 (ES1371)
VIA 82C686 Audio Codec
VIA 82C686 MIDI
OSS Sound Modules:
100% Sound Blaster compatibles
(SB16/32/64, ESS, Jazz16) support (NEW)
Sometime, I decided to give ALSA a shot, but when I
installed, configured, and compiled, for "via686a --
PCI: VIA 82C686A South Bridge", it told me that the
corresponding source for the VIA686 driver didn't
exist. However, make doesn't say where from.
find /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/ -name *via*
returns:
----------------------------------
./pci/via686.c
./pci.via8233.c
./alsa-kernel/pci/via686.c
./alsa-kernel/pci.via8233.c
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Am I missing something?
The ALSA package in Woody is marked beta. I'm still
slightly new to Debian; is it possible that the Stable
package set can still have problems, and I should be
looking forward to the Testing set?
VIA also supports drivers for their southbridge, but
when I attempt to install the 2.4 drivers, it won't
let me for any kernel other than 2.4.0. I can
override the installation script. Good idea, bad
idea?
Please! I'm desperate! Anything that pushes me in
the right direction would be ambrosia. (New) Kernel,
ALSA, something else, I don't care!
Thanks for reading this far!!
Caidence
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