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gctaylor
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 Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 8:55 pm Post subject: No Sound with ALSA and VIA VT8233 |
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I hate to start another thread on ALSA and particularly VIA VT8233 because there's the http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml written with this soundcard as an example, but I can't get this working and need help.
I've got a no-name motherboard using the VIA chipset with built in sound and I can't get sound to work. I don't think it is hardware. When the system reboots it beeps via the soundcard/speakers. Plus, it worked when I briefly tried Ubuntu.
In KDE, in Control Center, when I test sound, I get a slight spike in CPU usage as if it should be working. Putting a CD in doesn't give any errors, but no sound. Using aplay doesn't work either.
My userid is a member of the audio group.
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# amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Front Left: Playback 24 [77%] [on]
Front Right: Playback 24 [77%] [on]
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# lspci |grep -i audio
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 30)
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I have kernel 2.6.9 with sound as modules. I've also tried when compiled in to the kernel. Didn't help.
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# cat .config
CONFIG_SND=m
CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m
CONFIG_SND_PCM=m
CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=m
CONFIG_SND_MPU401_UART=m
CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=m
CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX=m
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Here's a partial listing of lsmod :
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# lsmod
Module Size Used by
firmware_class 7616 0
dummy 2116 0
via82cxxx 10652 0 [permanent]
snd_via82xx 22148 0
snd_pcm 83784 1 snd_via82xx
snd_timer 21124 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 7432 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 6080 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 18176 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_ac97_codec 68624 1 snd_via82xx
snd 41336 6 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec
soundcore 7456 1 snd
libcrc32c 2240 0
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# cat /etc/modules.d/alsa
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
options snd device_mode=0666
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx
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# emerge alsa-lib alsa-utils alsa-driver
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# cat /etc/devfsd.conf
# ALSA/OSS stuff
# the audio devices
LOOKUP snd MODLOAD ACTION snd
LOOKUP dsp MODLOAD
LOOKUP mixer MODLOAD
LOOKUP midi MODLOAD
REGISTER sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
REGISTER snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
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One of the many things that I'm not sure about is that I installed ALSA last (after KDE, Gnome, etc) and when I emerged the system I didn't have any USE flags that referenced ALSA.
Seems like it must be something obvious to everyone but me. What more should I be checking?
Thanks for reading, and of course if more information is needed I'd be happy to post it.
Gary |
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Crenshaw
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Joined: 23 Jun 2004
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Location: Poland
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| Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| alsa-driver is not needed, but i think it's not the case. Maybe try emerge xmms with USE="alsa" and give it a try (using alsa output plugin). aplay didn't work well on my VT8233. |
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