[GLLUG] Sound Driver Problem

[Brian Hoort]

Well, one last problem, and then the machine will be setup!  Finally!

I have struggled to get the sound work for several days.  It's onboard with 
VIA 8235 chipset.  This does not work with the provided via82cxxx 
module.  The manufacturer's web site has packages for 4 major 
distributions, but not Debian.

 From the googling and manufacturer's web site, I have gathered that of the 
many ways to do this, ALSA is probably the best.  I have installed the ALSA 
packages from apt-get, and it in itself appears to work fine.  However, it 
lacks a module for an ALSA driver for my card, and I don't see anything 
anywhere on how to make one.  The Debian archives do include packages 
called alsa-modules*, but they are only for kernel 2.4.16* and I'm running 
2.4.18-1, and I think I read somewhere that those are obsolete for the 
latest debian alsa package, which explains why they don't exist in the 
archive for any kernels after 2.4.16.

Any ideas?


-- 
Brian Hoort

It's simple to make things. It's hard to make things simple.