Excuse the long reply... work has been taking up a lot of time lately.

Any suggestions with this output?

-------- Original Message --------
From: Clemens Ladisch <[email protected]>
Apparently from: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] Unable to configure ASUS A7V sound card with Alsa
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:46:07 +0100

> [email protected] wrote:
> > The card is enabled in the BIOS,
> 
> Is the entry "Enabled" or "Auto"?  The latter means the BIOS
> automatically disables it when it finds another sound card, because,
> apparently, it doesn't expect anybody would want to use it when there
> is a _real_ sound card.
> 
> This is common with BIOSes for VIA chipsets.  The Linux kernel has code
> to forcibly enable the AC'97 controller on VT8237-based mainboards.
> In the case of older mainboards like yours, which sometimes didn't have
> audio, this cannot be done automatically.
> 
> Also check that Sound Blaster emulation is disabled.
> 
> > but does not appear in the lspci output.
> 
> Please show the lspci output.
> 
> > I was also surprised to find that Asus supplies drivers that support
> > RedHat 6.2.
> 
> This is no surprise if you consider that RH 6.2 comes with kernel 2.2.14,
> which didn't yet have ALSA.
> 
> I strongly suggest you forget those drivers and use the snd-via82xx
> driver of your distribution, which is likely to be newer by about eight
> years or so.
> 
> 
> HTH
> Clemens
> 
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