As suggeted by the WIKI page on the VIA8233 driver, I am reporting this information, for the ASUS A7V600 Motherboard. I was confused as to which driver to use, as the term AC'97 seems to be a nonsense designation of a protocol or standard. Anyway, I finally found out about this driver, and it works as
modprobe snd-via82xx dxs_support=4 Here is the output from lspci -v : 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80b0 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11 I/O ports at e000 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 I am not doing anything more complicated than playing mp3s or realplayer. Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-235-6580 Alan E. Davis, P. O. Box 506164 CK, Saipan, MP 96950, NMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved -- and I cannot resist forming one on every subject -- as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. -- Albert Einstein As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously. -- Benjamin Franklin ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user