Re: On Woody: (No) Sound with VIA 686a Southbridge, AC 97
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:51, Tom White wrote:
> Caidence,
>
> Your best bet is definitely a kernel upgrade. It is possible to get
> the VIA Southbridge to work under an older kernel using Alsa, but it's
> something of a pain. The one time I did it it took me quite a few hours to
> figure out exactly what had to go into /etc/modutils/snd and get
> everything working right. It's much easier to upgrade to a new kernel
> (The most recent stable one) that has support for the card.
>
Look into alsaconf, it creates the configuration files under
/etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 or something close to it.
You can make a link to it from /etc/modutils and voila ...
> ~Tom W
>
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> "...and the fully armed nuclear warheads, are, of course, merely a
> courtesy detail."
>
Using alsa worked for me with that card. Either the external drivers
from alsa-source-something or under kernel 2.6.0-test2 (sound worked but
I had some other problems with it so am not using it for the moment).
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