Aha! I have successfully made the Via82xx work with ALSA!
No more stupid snd_blahblah_printk depmod problems!! I have an EPIA M9000 board, and I'm running Mandrake 9.1 (with the built-in 2.3.21 kernel). Here's what I did, based on Kevin Page's suggestions (attached)... 1) I executed the recommended 'modprobe -r via82cxxx_audio' 2) I downloaded the 0.9.0rc6 versions of the driver, the utils, and the lib 3) I followed the instructions in http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=VIA&card=&chip=via8233a&module=via82xx EXCEPT for #4... 4) I actually *do* have DevFS, however, I ran ./snddevices ANYWAY (since I noticed I didn't have /dev/dsp, /dev/mixer, etc.) 5) I opened Gnome's volume control and turned up the main volume from zero. (Alsamixer's "master" didn't seem to do this for me.) Voila! Alles gut jetzt!! :) I rebooted, and it STILL works! (Hey, I'm impressed by simple things.) Now I'm playing John Tesh mp3s at full blast. I figure if THAT doesn't crash my PC, then nothing will! (Ok, I made up the part about listening to John Tesh.) So, the simple answer is: revert to 0.9.0rc6. Megakudos to Kevin Page!! --Jeff --- Kevin Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Jeff, > > The only solution I could come up with that really removed the > crackling for > everything was to downgrade to version 0.9.0rc6. (I think that's the > number, > I know it's the only thing with rc6 in it). That's the last version > without > the crackling, and it seems to be working fine now. It was hard for > me to > get my packages to work correctly with Mandrake, I'm a Linux newbie, > but I > seem to have installed the tarball over the packages I was using, and > now it > says that rc6 is loading when I start up Linux (though the packages > say that > version 9.3 is installed). I'm not sure how I ended up doing that, > but you > can probably at least figure it out with trial and error. Try > removing all > traces of ALSA and then installing rc6 fresh and see if that works. > Other > than buying a good soundcard, that seems to be the only solution > until ALSA > patches the VIA drivers. > > Hope that helps! > > Kevin Page > > On Thursday 05 June 2003 03:16 am, you wrote: > > Kevin, > > > > Did you ever find a solution for the crackling problem with the > ALSA > > drivers in VIA? > > > > I've been having the same problem and I can't find any definitive > help > > anywhere. It's most undesirable. > > > > I'm seeing it on the 8233, and it seems to be the same problem. > PCM > > audio doesn't play well (e.g., XMMS), but CDs play fine. > > > > I tried installing the latest ALSA driver, but every time I compile > it, > > I get a depmod error having something to do with a printk function. > > > > Can you offer any advice on anything that you've learned to solve > the > > problem in the past couple months? > > > > Thanks for your help. ===== ================================================= Jeffrey B. Holton | holtonjb [at] yahoo [dot] com ================================================= __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! Click here: http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
