James wrote: > lspci -v reveals: > 0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) > Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X-X Motherboard > Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 22 > I/O ports at e000 > Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 > > the kernel is configured with: > devicedrivers ->sound ->sound card support ->alsa ->pci devices > > <*> VIA 82C686A/B, 8233/8235 AC97 Controller > <*> VIA 82C686A/B, 8233 based Modems > > but this does not seem to do the trick. Upon reboot > it complains that the ALSA drivers are not found. > > dmesg: > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver > Version 1.0.8 (Thu Jan 13 09:39:32 2005 UTC). > ALSA device list: > No soundcards found.
I have the and Asus K8V SE at home (now I am in office) with the same AC'97 audio controller (Via 8237), alsa worked *almost* out-of-the-box since kernel 2.6.9 (also in 5.1 sound) though right now I don't remember exactly what I did to get it woking. I'll check my alsa/kernel config this evening and try to be more helpful. Probably not the case, since lspci detects the 8237 chip, but did you enable the audio chipset in the mobo BIOS? raf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
