Well, limited success on my part (alsa on Mandrake 9.0). I installed 0.9.0rc6 and now can get some sound out of my laptop.
The sounds I get are: 1. a constant buzzing noise. 2. A repeating loop, that sounds vaguely like music (like some 60's avant garde stuff:') The looping 'music' happens radomly? Like when I switch xterms? Couldn't really pin it down. alsamixer shows everything at 100% Set amixer to 100 for Master, Headphone, PCM and unmuted these. using mpg123 or aplayer doesn't produce any noise. Any hints on how to make some progress at this point? -greg --- Jeffrey Holton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 __________________________________ 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
