I am having fun getting the onboard sound on my recent Gigabyte GA-7VKML mobo working.
The mobo has a VIA VT8233A southbridge, and a Realtek "AC'97" ALC101 codec. I think earlier revisions of this board have a different codec chip because references to it in the mobo manual are in a loose erata sheet. I want to get this working, and I thought I'd ask here if anyone has a similar combination working, before I go ahead and try myself with alsa. How do I get this combo going? Initially I tried with the 2.4 kernel drivers (oss?) with varing levels of failure. On earlier kernels the via82cxxx_audio module will load and produce no sound, on later kernels it won't even load. I found a patch on lkml for the Realtek ACLXXX codecs, but it was talking about an ALi5451 chipset. I don't know the significance of the chipset. I tried the patch, but it didn't help. (Although I realise I haven't completely tested it yet. I might go back and do this again.) Then I thought I would try ALSA. If there is work to be done to get this going, I'd rather contribure to ALSA. However, I'm a beginner and I need some guidance so I don't waste my time. Can anyone point me to some documentation for what follows? What exactly is AC'97? What does the codec do? What part does the 8233 chip play in the sound system (if any)? Is it likely that a driver just needs to be teaked for this combination, or will a new driver need to be written (or does ALSA support it already?) TIA, Alex ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to $1,000 for every account that you consolidate with us. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4749864;7604308;v? http://www.viaverio.com/consolidator/osdn.cfm _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
