[GLLUG] Sound Driver Problem

Michael Watters wattersm at wattersm.net
Thu Jan 1 09:23:19 EST 2004


Brian Hoort wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 

I usually just complie ALSA from source, all you need to do is download 
the alsa-driver, alsa-lib and alsa-utils source, do the usual 
./configure; make; make install dance and it's done.

Then all you do is modprobe the module you need and sound should be working.


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