On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 12:21:18AM +0200, Ivo Wever wrote: > Below I quoted a message I found in the archives. It pretty much states my > problem: VIA supplies drivers for this onboard soundchip (which is on many, > if not all, of the motherboards with the VIA Apollo KT266A chipset) for > several distros (Caldera, RedHat, Suse, Mandrake), but not for Debian. I > couldn't get the redhat packages to work and now I'm kind of stuck. > > Does anyone know a solution besides: "Create the debian package yourself'? > > [quote] > Hello, > > Did anybody get the VIA VT8233 sound chip to work (on woody)? I have tried > abaout everything I can think of without success. The strange thing is that > the modules can be installed and some of the sound applications work as if > everything were fine, but there is just no sound. The mixer programs don't > work though. amixer says > > The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system. > > although the driver *is* installed. > [/quote] I have this on-board soundcard and it works well. ALSA only, but works. I downloaded alsa drivers source and build with kernel with make-kpkg. My configs related to alsa:
/etc/alsa/alsa-source.conf: <...> ifndef ALSA_CARDS ALSA_CARDS="via8233" endif /etc/modutils/alsa: alias char-major-14 soundcore alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via8233 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 # OSS/Free portion - card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss Patrik
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