On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 07:06:23PM +0000, p wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:35:32AM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > > În 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 [oops] ^^^^^^^^^ (struggling) > 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. > > // > >
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