Hi, please try the cvs version. the via8233 (and via686) driver has been changed much on cvs since 0.9.0rc3. now they are merged as a unifed module "snd-via82xx".
Takashi At Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:28:19 +0200, Joachim Blaabjerg wrote: > > I'm forwarding this to -devel, just in case you guys know something that the > folks on -user don't. > > I guess I should mention that I sometimes get this error message while > attempting to play sound (not always, though): > > ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:398:(snd_pcm_hw_prepare) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_PREPARE failed: > Device or resource busy > > Some times I get that error, although the sound continues to play. FWIW, I use > Linux 2.4.19 with a huge patchset (sys-kernel/lolo-sources i Gentoo/Portage). > > This might be very irrelevant and uninteresting, but I tried getting it to > work again just now, and this quote is a bit incorrect: > > > It tends to play sounds very, very slowly, and 1/10 second samples over and > > over again (perhaps 20 times). > > It's more like 0.5 second samples that are played five times. :P > > Best Regards, > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: [Alsa-user] VIA VT8235 (ALC201) problems > Date: Wednesday 16 October 2002 15:49 > From: Joachim Blaabjerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > I recently bought an EPoX 8K5A2 motherboard, with an onboard ALC201 sound > chip. This motherboard utilizes VIA's new VT8235 south bridge (as opposed to > VT8233 in most other recent VIA chipset boards), which I think may be the > cause of my sound problems. I've tried various ALSA drivers with little or no > success; neither of via82cxxx_audio, snd-via686a or snd-intel8x0 will load > (init_module: No such device). > > There is however one driver that does load: snd-via8233. Sadly, this driver > fails to produce anything but noise. It tends to play sounds very, very > slowly, and 1/10 second samples over and over again (perhaps 20 times). > > I've looked at the RealTek site, and they offer driver downloads. This is > just a repackaging of alsa-driver-0.9.0_rc3 (which I am using), and a > prewritten modules.conf that utilises the snd-via8233 module. > > Has anyone had any luck with this sound chip/motherboard? > > Best Regards, > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to > $1,000 for every account that you consolidate with us. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4749864;7604308;v? > http://www.viaverio.com/consolidator/osdn.cfm > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to > $1,000 for every account that you consolidate with us. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4749864;7604308;v? > http://www.viaverio.com/consolidator/osdn.cfm > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to $1,000 for every account that you consolidate with us. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4749864;7604308;v? http://www.viaverio.com/consolidator/osdn.cfm _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
