> I have a new motherboard with an onboard VIA VT8233 sound card. I have > installed MDK 10 beta 2. Looks great, runs fast, but no sound. I have > run alsamixer to ensure volumes are up (although I didn't see a 'master' > volume category.). I've also looked at kmix to see if the volume levels > are right there, and that it is not muted. The MCC Hardware section > shows the card, and it's using the snd-via82xx driver. > > Not sure what else to check (the speakers are plugged in and this is a > dual-boot machine currently with Win2000 where I can get sound). Hoping > that someone else had similar onboard sound and could point me in the > right direction. > > Thanks. > > Wish I could help you but I also have exactly the same problem. Use the > same onboard via and using the same driver as you. I have posted help but > so far no replies. > Someone sugested that I change the driver from oss but as a novice i dont > understand what this means. > If you know what this is and it works can you please let me know how. > > Regards Philip.
I guess i can't be of much help as i've not tried the mandrake beta and i am on slackware, but i have the same card and i can tell you my story so far. Alsa can work quite fine with that card as long as your set the sampling rate on 48000, when i passed to kde 3.2 everything became a mess because the card did not play any sound and programs like xmms or alsaplayer used to show no activity at all. In the end i've recompiled the kernel (2.6.2) with oss drivers and that is the only way i could make it work with kde 3.2. I hope you are luckier than me. If you have mplayer on try from terminal something like this so we can start having some error messages to work on mplayer -ao arts something.mp3 and mplayer -ao alsa9 something.mp3 See you :) Beppe
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