On Thursday 22 February 2001 15:53, you wrote:
> Soyo motherboards have a built in sound chip, the VIA VT82C686 (Apollo
> Super AC97 Audio). The latest hard drake correctly identifies it and
> mentions a file called via82cxxx_audio, but does not turn the sound on.
> Sndconfig says it's not supported. Soyo has a redhat 7.1 driver which is
> outdated and doesn't work. Does anyone know anything about this? I could
> disable the sound chip and put my old sound card back but I'd rather not do
> that. the windows driver works.
Try the following in /etc/modules.conf
# ALSA native device support
post-install snd /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via686a
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
# ----------> end add to /etc/conf.modules
This is working for me. Once you've done this, you should be able to do (but
it's not necessary):
modprobe snd-card-via686a
cat /proc/asound/cards
[ewilts@linux1 ewilts]$ sudo /sbin/modprobe snd-card-via686a
[ewilts@linux1 ewilts]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [card1 ]: VIA686A - VIA 82C686A
VIA 82C686A at 0xdc00, irq 5
[ewilts@linux1 ewilts]$ sudo /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd-card-via686a 7632 0 (autoclean)
snd-pcm 32672 0 (autoclean) [snd-card-via686a]
snd-timer 8512 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 24800 0 (autoclean) [snd-card-via686a]
snd-mixer 24432 0 (autoclean) [snd-ac97-codec]
snd-mpu401-uart 2752 0 (autoclean) [snd-card-via686a]
snd-rawmidi 10016 0 (autoclean) [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 4304 0 (autoclean) [snd-rawmidi]
snd 38608 1 [snd-card-via686a snd-pcm snd-timer
snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 4208 2 [snd]
vmnet 18912 3
vmmon 18512 0 (unused)
parport_pc 23408 0 (autoclean) (unused)
parport 24832 0 (autoclean) [parport_pc]
8139too 16816 1 (autoclean)
rtc 6208 0
agpgart 22432 0 (unused)
ide-floppy 11456 0
A Google search on via686a will turn up LOTS of pages on this subject. I've
actually got an M807 motherboard with the same chipset on it. Make sure the
bios has it enabled though!
Good luck,
.../Ed
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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