[expert] Gigabyte EV-7VKML mobo

2003-01-07 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have one of these that everything works well (even a Lucent winmodem) except for sound. I get nothing, zip, nada, no matter what I do. Only ALSA supposedly supports this chipset, not OSS, so my options are limited. Is there anybody out there with

Re: [expert] Gigabyte EV-7VKML mobo

2003-01-07 Thread Nelson Bartley
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. That motherboards audio shou

Re: [expert] Gigabyte EV-7VKML mobo

2003-01-07 Thread James Sparenberg
Todd, What's the chipset on sound? Maybe another mobo has it and it's working there. James On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 16:59, Todd Lyons wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have one of these that everything works well (even a Lucent winmodem) > except for sound. I get n

Re: [expert] Gigabyte EV-7VKML mobo

2003-01-07 Thread Nelson Bartley
Note: I figured out it was a realtek chipset and as far as I understand all realtek chipsets are supported through the v8233a module. Gizmo On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 20:23, Nelson Bartley wrote: > The 7vklm should work PERFECTLY in mandrake 9.0 and 8.2. I had one for a > short period of time and it

Re: [expert] Gigabyte EV-7VKML mobo

2003-01-07 Thread Todd Lyons
-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 identif

Re: [expert] Gigabyte EV-7VKML mobo

2003-01-07 Thread Nelson Bartley
You know this is gonna sound stupid but really just try reinstalling the base os. It's kinda overkill but atleast it garauntees that you "in-theory"TM should work fine. have you checked all the volume levels and input devices that are connected to the computer (that are not controlled by aumix?) I

Re: [expert] Gigabyte EV-7VKML mobo

2003-01-07 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nelson Bartley wrote on Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:25:45PM -0500 : > You know this is gonna sound stupid but really just try reinstalling the > base os. It's kinda overkill but atleast it garauntees that you > "in-theory"TM should work fine. I'll check a

Re: [expert] Gigabyte EV-7VKML mobo

2003-01-07 Thread Kiran
IIRC Mandrake 9.0 uses the ALSA drivers by default. On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 19:23, Nelson Bartley wrote: > 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

Re: [expert] Gigabyte EV-7VKML mobo

2003-01-07 Thread James Sparenberg
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

Re: [expert] Gigabyte EV-7VKML mobo

2003-01-08 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kiran wrote on Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:55:04PM -0600 : > IIRC Mandrake 9.0 uses the ALSA drivers by default. It depends on the sound hardware. Most of the time it's ALSA. In cases where OSS is known to work better, it will use OSS instead. less /us

Re: [expert] Gigabyte EV-7VKML mobo

2003-01-09 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Damon Lynch wrote on Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:14:05PM +1300 : > Is sound enabled in the BIOS? :-) Further info. Apparently the mobo manual is wrong. It is not speaker/line level outputs. It's line level only. So the sound was probably working just

Re: [expert] Gigabyte EV-7VKML mobo

2003-01-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 14:33, Todd Lyons wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Damon Lynch wrote on Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:14:05PM +1300 : > > Is sound enabled in the BIOS? :-) > > Further info. Apparently the mobo manual is wrong. It is not > speaker/line level outputs.

Re: [expert] Gigabyte EV-7VKML mobo

2003-01-09 Thread James Sparenberg
Todd I think I found the sound thread... title is RC3:ESD produces digital noise Seems to be something with esd sound and alsa drivers. I know this was on RC3 but it's possible that the problems with this sound card are continuous. James On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 14:33, Todd Lyons wrote: > --

Re: [expert] Gigabyte EV-7VKML mobo

2003-01-10 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Sparenberg wrote on Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:42:30PM -0800 : > Todd I think I found the sound thread... title is > RC3:ESD produces digital noise > Seems to be something with esd sound and alsa drivers. I know this > was on RC3 but it's possi