On Sunday 08 February 2004 11:53 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: > I have a new motherboard with an onboard VIA VT8233 sound card. I have > installed MDK 10 beta 2. Looks great, runs fast, but no sound. I have > run alsamixer to ensure volumes are up (although I didn't see a 'master' > volume category.). I've also looked at kmix to see if the volume levels > are right there, and that it is not muted. The MCC Hardware section > shows the card, and it's using the snd-via82xx driver. > > Not sure what else to check (the speakers are plugged in and this is a > dual-boot machine currently with Win2000 where I can get sound). Hoping > that someone else had similar onboard sound and could point me in the > right direction. > > Thanks. Trey: I have one of those critters, and while I was finally able to get some sound out of it, it was at a very low volume level. I finally took the coward's way out and installed an old Creative card. If you're not as lazy as I am, this old posting from Derek Jennings that may be of help to you:
> From: Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] no sound with mandrake 9.1 > Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 21:47:31 +0100 > > > On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 7:31 pm, MACY, NIALLEN C wrote: > > I am getting no sound with my VT8233 [AC97 Adio Controller] sound card. i > > have run the config tool and sometimes i get sound and others i dont. I > > just went to the via tech website and downloaded those drivers and it still > > doesnt work. does anyone have any ideas on what i should do? > > I have that sound card. > Try setting your /etc/modules.conf like this:- > > # ALSA portion > alias char-major-116 snd > alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx > # module options should go here > # OSS/Free portion > alias char-major-14 soundcore > alias sound-slot-0 snd-0 > # card #1 > 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 > below snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-oss snd-pcm-oss > > There is lots of good info at > > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ > > derek > -- cmg
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