On Wed, 29 May 2002 10:19:39 -0700 "Steve Juranich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've had this computer for a couple of months now and I still can't get > my stupid sound hardware to work. > > I have an on-board ac97 via-8233 based sound controller (from lspci): (snip) > 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 (snip) > Loading driver: > Starting ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.0rc1): (card-via686a) > Setting the PCM volume to 100% and the Master output volume to 50% > amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory > Could not initialize the mixer, the card was probably > not detected correctly. Well, call me crazy but the error appears to be correct. Looking at this site: http://alsa-project.org/~goemon/ the chipset you have should be using the via8233 driver not the via686a driver. So, chances are you are looking for a config file something like the following: | alias char-major-116 snd | options snd snd_cards_limit=1 | alias snd-card-0 snd-via8233 | | alias char-major-14 soundcore | alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 | 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-0-8 snd-seq-oss | alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss | | post-install sound-slot-0 alsactl restore | pre-remove sound-slot-0 alsactl store | | post-install snd-pcm modprobe snd-pcm-oss | post-install snd-seq modprobe snd-seq-oss I would put the above in /etc/modutils/alsa and run "udpate-modules". Then try starting alsa and see how things work. -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
