Via has an extensive site going on Linux Support... More than most dedicate to Windows... Kinda neat... It's at http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=192
They are claiming that the 8233 chipset is fully supported and have yet to get into hardcore details... but a point of contact is listed for the guy writing the article for them.... so.... One thing is though they have heavy linkage to RH and SuSe. Question would be. IF it works under them what do they do different? James On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 18:02, Todd Lyons wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nelson Bartley wrote on Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 08:23:24PM -0500 : > > The 7vklm should work PERFECTLY in mandrake 9.0 and 8.2. I had one for a > > short period of time and it performed flawlessly. > > Did Drakx pick it up during install? It should have identified an via > > 8233a southbridge audio device, usually based off a crappy via sound > > codec. > > Yes: > > $ grep snd modules_loaded > snd-seq-oss 26176 0 (unused) > snd-seq-midi-event 3208 0 [snd-seq-oss] > snd-seq 33264 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] > snd-seq-device 3836 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq] > snd-pcm-oss 36932 0 > snd-mixer-oss 9016 0 [snd-pcm-oss] > snd-via8233 5772 0 > snd-ac97-codec 25508 0 [snd-via8233] > snd-pcm 55808 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-via8233] > snd-timer 9964 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] > snd 24804 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event > snd-seq snd-seq-device snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via8233 > snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer] > soundcore 3780 0 [snd] > > I've messed with any and all settings in the mixer (aumix), turning arts > on and off, and setting various types of sound server within KDE. I've > tried running mpg123 from the commandline. It _acts_ like it's working, > but no sound. Just as an idiot check, I plugged the cable into ALL of > the jacks one at a time. Nothing. I'm still working on it. Based on > your words, I have a sinking suspicion that I'm overlooking something > REALLY obvious. But I'll let you know. > > Here's the output of lspcidrake and lspci (should be obvious which is > which) > > snd-via8233 : VIA Technologies|VT8233 [AC97 Audio Controller] > > 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 > Audio Co > ntroller (rev 40) > Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology: Unknown device a001 > Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Step > ping- SERR- FastB2B- > Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort > - - <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- > Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 22 > Region 0: I/O ports at dc00 [size=256] > Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 > Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot > - -,D3cold-) > Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- > > Blue skies... Todd > - -- > MandrakeSoft USA http://www.mandrakesoft.com > Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible. > --Larry Wall > Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-2mdk > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+G4aqlp7v05cW2woRAg+pAJ9WHRau5VO79SDAL6BtKU4ILnCcXgCglVrs > Z/W9fGf07v1qdeYNxOsPj6w= > =UhqZ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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