On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 03:24, Brian Hanks wrote: > I have a MSI KT7 Turbo2 motherboard that uses the VIA VT82C686B South > Bridge to supply AC '97 audio. Unfortunately, I have never managed to > get it to work. > > The default 7.3 install provided a bunch of tinny echoing noise, but > that was about it. > > VIA's drivers suck. They are all compiled for specific versions of > the kernel and they don't provide the source. > > I've tried the alsa drivers and they seemed to work for some time, but > for whatever reason they stopped. All subsequent attempts at > installing the alsa drivers have resulted in silence.
Be sure that after compiling/installing alsa, you run the snddevices script that comes with alsa. Do a 'modprobe snd-via8xxx' and then run alsactl (alsa mutes everything by default). -- Cliff Wells, Software Engineer Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net) (503) 978-6726 x308 (800) 735-0555 x308
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