[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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