Re: [Cooker] Soyo/ VIA chip built-in sound

[Chmouel Boudjnah]

"pablito" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Soyo motherboards have a built in sound chip, the VIA VT82C686 (Apollo Super
 AC97 Audio).  The latest hard drake correctly identifies it and mentions a
 file called via82cxxx_audio, but does not turn the sound on.  Sndconfig says
 it's not supported.  Soyo has a redhat 7.1 driver which is outdated and
 doesn't work.  Does anyone know anything about this?  I could disable the
 sound chip and put my old sound card back but I'd rather not do that.  the
 windows driver works.

if you use a 2.4.x kernel use the via82cxxx_audio module if you use a 2.2.x
kernel use the module from Alsa snd-card-via686a.

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MandrakeSoft Inc http://www.chmouel.org --Chmouel

RE: [Cooker] Soyo/ VIA chip built-in sound

[José Luiz Barci Neves]

Im my 7.2 i just need to add modprobe to my rc.files

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 Subject:  [Cooker] Soyo/ VIA chip built-in sound
 
 Soyo motherboards have a built in sound chip, the VIA VT82C686 (Apollo
 Super
 AC97 Audio).  The latest hard drake correctly identifies it and mentions a
 file called via82cxxx_audio, but does not turn the sound on.  Sndconfig
 says
 it's not supported.  Soyo has a redhat 7.1 driver which is outdated and
 doesn't work.  Does anyone know anything about this?  I could disable the
 sound chip and put my old sound card back but I'd rather not do that.  the
 windows driver works.
 
 

Re: [Cooker] Soyo/ VIA chip built-in sound

[Ed Wilts]

On Thursday 22 February 2001 15:53, you wrote:
 Soyo motherboards have a built in sound chip, the VIA VT82C686 (Apollo
 Super AC97 Audio).  The latest hard drake correctly identifies it and
 mentions a file called via82cxxx_audio, but does not turn the sound on. 
 Sndconfig says it's not supported.  Soyo has a redhat 7.1 driver which is
 outdated and doesn't work.  Does anyone know anything about this?  I could
 disable the sound chip and put my old sound card back but I'd rather not do
 that.  the windows driver works.

Try the following in /etc/modules.conf

# ALSA native device support
post-install snd /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via686a
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
# -- end add to /etc/conf.modules

This is working for me.  Once you've done this, you should be able to do (but 
it's not necessary):
modprobe snd-card-via686a
cat /proc/asound/cards
[ewilts@linux1 ewilts]$ sudo /sbin/modprobe snd-card-via686a
[ewilts@linux1 ewilts]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [card1  ]: VIA686A - VIA 82C686A
 VIA 82C686A at 0xdc00, irq 5
[ewilts@linux1 ewilts]$ sudo /sbin/lsmod
Module  Size  Used by
snd-card-via686a7632   0  (autoclean)
snd-pcm32672   0  (autoclean) [snd-card-via686a]
snd-timer   8512   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 24800   0  (autoclean) [snd-card-via686a]
snd-mixer  24432   0  (autoclean) [snd-ac97-codec]
snd-mpu401-uart 2752   0  (autoclean) [snd-card-via686a]
snd-rawmidi10016   0  (autoclean) [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device  4304   0  (autoclean) [snd-rawmidi]
snd38608   1  [snd-card-via686a snd-pcm snd-timer 
snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore   4208   2  [snd]
vmnet  18912   3
vmmon  18512   0  (unused)
parport_pc 23408   0  (autoclean) (unused)
parport24832   0  (autoclean) [parport_pc]
8139too16816   1  (autoclean)
rtc 6208   0
agpgart22432   0  (unused)
ide-floppy 11456   0

A Google search on via686a will turn up LOTS of pages on this subject.  I've 
actually got an M807 motherboard with the same chipset on it.  Make sure the 
bios has it enabled though!

Good luck,
.../Ed
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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