Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.20 and Via Sound
On Friday 07 March 2003 2:29 pm, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: I am currently using gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r10 and I see that there is an upgrade to 2.4.20-r1. I have an onboard VIA Sound system: 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40) that will only work with alsa, which is wonky even at best. Does anyone know if the VT8233 has support added to 2.4.20? On a pair of Asus Terminator K7 machines, with vanilla 2.4.20, I ended up with these modules: cmpci sound uart401 ac97_codec via82cxxx_audio Hope that helps. -- Ian Tindale -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.20 and Via Sound
On Friday 07 Mar 2003 14:41, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:37:25PM +, Peter Ruskin wrote: that will only work with alsa, which is wonky even at best. Does anyone know if the VT8233 has support added to 2.4.20? AFAIK you still need ALSA ... I have that chip too. Drat. Do you have any problems when using it with alsa? If I am using XMMS and browsing the web, anytime the flash plugin is called, I get a device busy and the browser locks up until I stop XMMS. The browser then works again... Any suggestions? Hmmm ... works OK for me, but then I use KDE and arts. I start browsers with `artsdsp $BROWSER` and I have the arts server autosuspend after 1 second. Peter -- Gentoo-1.4.2.8 Unstable. KDE: 3.1.0 Qt: 3.1.0 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+ 768MB. Kernel: 2.4.20-xfs_pre6.GCC 3.2.2 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.20 and Via Sound
On Friday 07 March 2003 19:38, Alexander Futasz wrote: Are you sure? Maybe it's just not supported by alsa, because i never had problems like that with Windows 2000, which i used on this box before Gentoo. In Windows 2000 it mixed several sounds and played them at the same time. No windows did that, not the card. In windows there is a more unified sound system with software mixing than in linux. I hope this changes soon, but until then, either find out how to do it in alsa (if possible), or use arts or esound Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.20 and Via Sound
I heard Alexander Futasz said: That sound chip does indeed not seem to support hardware PCM mixing, which would allow several sounds to be played at the same time, so the mixing has to be done in software. Are you sure? Nope. :) I just don't think I remember it working in Windows, but that was about a year ago, so... :p Maybe it's just not supported by alsa, because i never had problems like that with Windows 2000, which i used on this box before Gentoo. In Windows 2000 it mixed several sounds and played them at the same time. In KDE too -- maybe W2k uses a software mixer as well? Or maybe it's indeed an ALSA problem, which is totally possible. I'm sure one of our knowledgeable people here will be able to enlighten us. :) -- S. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.20 and Via Sound
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:41:29 -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: Drat. Do you have any problems when using it with alsa? If I am using XMMS and browsing the web, anytime the flash plugin is called, I get a device busy and the browser locks up until I stop XMMS. The browser then works again... Any suggestions? Update. I use alsa-driver 0.9.0_rc6, alsa-lib 0.9.0_rc6, netscape-flash 6.0.69 (although 6.0.79 should be in portage soon). Sound works flawless and since flash6 the webbrowser never locks up if xmms or anything else is using /dev/dsp. It just plays the flash stuff in silence. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
