On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 11:45:07PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Here's what is says for my sound card: > > > >Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio > >Controller (rev 40) > > Subsystem: Gateway 2000: Unknown device 1200 > > Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10 > > I/O ports at e000 [size=256] > > I/O ports at e100 [size=4] > > I/O ports at e104 [size=4] > > Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 > > > >I tried enabling the Via chipset in my kernel, but so far I've been > >unsucessful...if there anything else I need to do? > > > >Alex Lo > > > > > I'm sending this to the list instead of to Alex, for three reasons: > 1) It'll be archived for future reference. > 2) Others on the list may (or may not) benefit from the dialog. > 3) Others on the list may have better/additional information than I > provide. > If there's some reason you (Alex) don't want this discussion in public, > let me know. > > It sounds like you're compiling your own kernel. I'm not sure what > kernel version you're using, but if it's 2.4.18 (or around that one), > you need to go into the Sound option and enable the "VIA82C686 Audio > Codec". If this is what you meant in your post above, did you enable it > as a module or as built-in? If as a module, what does "lsmod" show? > > I could never get a VIA VT8233 AC97 sound system working using the > kernel sources alone, and had to resort to using Also. If you want to > got that route you can install the Alsa source with "apt-get install > alsa-source". IIRC, it should put a .tar (or .tgz or .bz2) file in > /usr/src. Unzip/tar it, and then look in the > /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver directory. Read INSTALL. There's about 7 > steps in the "Quick Install" section. If you run into difficulties at > that point, holler again. > > Kent >
Don't forget to add yourself to the audio group :-). Otherwise, nothing else will work. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
