>Ok I've managed to find a way for sound to work properly, the kcontrol
>information to be correct and the arts daemon to not conflict with the via
>82cxxx ac97 sound card. Please do this by default for any installation as
>sound will never work properly on this card otherwise.
>
>Install alsa instead of the oss/lite modules
>edit the modules.conf file correctly
>
># ALSA native device support
>alias char-major-116 snd
>options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
>alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via686a
>
># OSS/Free setup
>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
>
>then start the arts daemon (artsd) with the -r 48000 option to reflect the
>proper sample rate playback.
>
>If you don't want to include the alsa drivers by default then even with the
>-r 48000 option the arts daemon will fail. The other problems will be that
>all x-apps and the esd will playback sounds at higher pitch (44100 sample
>rates played at 48000) and kcontrol will not be able to recognise the sound
>information. Sound will only work sporadically.
>
>Please do this by default on installation as there are many of these
>motherboards around now.
>
>Con
>
Oh I forgot to mention this doesn't make artsd work any better though. Apart
from kde2 most things don't like to make sound with artsd running.
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