On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:35:32AM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > Īn data de 1-12-2001, la 18h 59'38", Ionel Mugurel Ciobica scria despre "sound on >VAIO FX401": > > Hi all, > > > > I have a VAIO FX401. The lspci command give me: > > > > debian:~# lspci > > [...] > > 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller >(rev 50) > > [...] > > > I did not activate yet the sound card. I have tried few solutions, but > none worked. I comiled many kernels with many sound drivers, but none > are working. As I said the lspci give me: "00:07.5 Multimedia audio > controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)". > > I put back the xp from the Sony image CD's and I check the proprieties of > the sound card. It said: > VIA AC'97 Audio Controler (WDM) > IO: 1000-10FF, 1C54-1c57, 1C50-1C53, > IRQ: 09 > PCI bus 0, device 7, function 5 > > > From the list of the kernel sound drivers the closest one is VIA82CXXX, > but it is not working. Some one installed RedHat on the same VAIO FX401 > and the sound was working without any change. Same persone is using now > Suse. The sound was not properly installed, he just needed to run > modprobe with the VIA82CXXX driver as argument and it was OK. > > I don't want to install other linux distributions just to make my laptop > better, I want to stick to Debian. > > Please, some suggestions... anything? > > Last time I tried to activate the sound with an append line in the > lilo.conf, but the xp did not specified the dma and dma2 values. > > > Thank you for any help. > > Ionel > > --
i had to bite the bullet by buying a sound license from: http://www.opensound.com/linux.html ...nothing else would work for my sony vaio picturebook. stuggling without sound for a year and a half was long enough. i know that this isn't the debian way, but i was desparate. hth. b. // -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
