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#1 2005-03-08 04:26:16

timm
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From: Wisconsin
Registered: 2004-02-25
Posts: 417

Sound on an AOpen AK77-600N motherboard

I'm having trouble getting sound out of my system.  I have the above motherboard, which has a VIA Apollo KT600 chipset with a VIA VT8235 sound chip.  I have installed the snd-via82xx module in /etc/rc.conf

I'm playing around in KDE right now, and it shows the sound card.  I'm not sure where I go from here, and appreciate any suggestions.

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#2 2005-03-08 04:50:39

smith
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From: Crescent City, CA
Registered: 2005-02-19
Posts: 77

Re: Sound on an AOpen AK77-600N motherboard

Did you install Alsa?  Check out the following link:

"http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/Alsa%20setup"

Cheers.


I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

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#3 2005-03-08 15:36:56

Gullible Jones
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Registered: 2004-12-29
Posts: 4,863

Re: Sound on an AOpen AK77-600N motherboard

Install alsa-utils if you haven't already. You don't have to use Alsamixer, KDE stores your preferences for KMix...

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#4 2005-03-08 19:10:45

timm
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From: Wisconsin
Registered: 2004-02-25
Posts: 417

Re: Sound on an AOpen AK77-600N motherboard

I hadn't installed alsa, but now have; while Noatun acts like it's playing the test .wav file, there's no sound.  I plugged in a pair of headphones to make sure my speakers hadn't gone bad or something; no sound there either.  aplay at the command line also acts like it's playing, but no sound.

my lsmod output looks like this, and everything seems to show up(I'm not sure how to format this so it comes up in nice columns)

Module                  Size       Used by
ohci_hcd               23560  0
analog                   12704  0
ns558                      6016  0
parport_pc            28996  0
parport                  38600  1 parport_pc
pcspkr                     4044  0
rtc                         13128  0
via_ircc                  26900  0
irda                      144188  1 via_ircc
crc_ccitt                  2432  1 irda
ehci_hcd                35332  0
uhci_hcd                34576  0
usbcore                125560  4 ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
tsdev                       8128  0
evdev                       9984  0
st                           41884  0
8139too                 27904  0
mii                             5760  1 8139too
snd_via82xx           29216  0
snd_ac97_codec     78176  1 snd_via82xx
snd_pcm_oss          56612  0
snd_mixer_oss        21120  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm               101252  3 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer                27140  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc        10244  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
gameport                   5120  3 analog,ns558,snd_via82xx
snd_mpu401_uart      8704  1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi             26144  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device         8972  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                          59108  9 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore              10848  1 snd

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#5 2005-03-08 20:13:12

i3839
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Registered: 2004-02-04
Posts: 1,185

Re: Sound on an AOpen AK77-600N motherboard

Tried unmuting the soundcard? Sometimes it's muted for some strange reason (check with amixer).

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#6 2005-03-09 20:04:17

Gullible Jones
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Registered: 2004-12-29
Posts: 4,863

Re: Sound on an AOpen AK77-600N motherboard

There's an option, "IEC985 Output", that has to be unmuted. You might also have to mute "IEC985 Capture Monitor", but I'm not certain about that.

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#7 2005-03-10 13:58:13

timm
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From: Wisconsin
Registered: 2004-02-25
Posts: 417

Re: Sound on an AOpen AK77-600N motherboard

I went through and confirmed the card was unmuted; played with the EIC985 both ways, nothing has changed.  I've dug up some suggestions from other sources I'll be trying out; from the research it  appears that this sound system has been problematic in other distros.  I'll post here (success or failure) for posterity ;-)

If I do have to give up on this, any suggestions for a decent sound card?

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#8 2005-03-10 21:30:51

timm
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From: Wisconsin
Registered: 2004-02-25
Posts: 417

Re: Sound on an AOpen AK77-600N motherboard

I dug around in the dmesg output and found this:

via82xx: Assuming DXS channels with 48k fixed sample rate.
         Please try dxs_support=1 or dxs_support=4 option
         and report if it works on your machine.

Can anyone tell me what this means?  Where would I put these items?

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