Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: HELP: Cannot get ALSA working on via82xx | Date | Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:29:29 -0400 |
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On Thursday 15 July 2004 12:08, Timothy Miller wrote: >Thank you for responding! > >Takashi Iwai wrote: >> At Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:26:54 -0400, >> >> Timothy Miller wrote: >>>I must once again reiterate my begging for help on this topic. >>> I've gotten lots of help on the gentoo forum, but none of it's >>> fixed my problems, and I've only gotten one response on LKML. >>> >>>*BEG* *BEG* *BEG* >>> >>>Please, won't someone take pity on me? :) Thanks! >> >> via82xx doesn't support MPU401 by itslef although via686 does. > >I'm not sure if I have via686 or not. Various tools like lspci > don't seem to reveal much. > >That's one of the problems I keep running into with Linux. There > aren't good tools for finding out what you have, and even when you > do find out what you have, it's hard to figure out which modules > you need, because the module names don't correspond well with the > chipset name. Furthermore, there doesn't seem to be a good way to > relate module names with menuconfig entries. When someone says to > use xyz module, I can't figure out which menuconfig option to > select, so I have to compile ALL of them as modules, and when > someone tells me to use a given menu option, I can't figure out > which module corresponds to it. > >> You can try snd-mpu401 module instead. > >Well, I have a module snd-mpu401, but when I modprobe it, I get an > error about a non-existant device. > > > When ACPI is enabled, the >> >> configuration will be done automatically. >> The midi device can be available as the second card. > >Ah, well, I had nightmares trying to use ACPI. I use just APM for >things like power-off (power-off works with APM, but not with ACPI). >Maybe some of the experts can help me to figure out how to get it > all to work. > >I'm about ready to give up on ALSA and go back to OSS. Maybe > someone can help me to figure out how to get MIDI sequencing to > work with OSS instead. OSS would at least do audio right without > noise and popping sounds, etc. > >I apologize for the impatient nature of this post... I've been >struggling for weeks to get audio working right with ALSA, but every >piece of advise I get seems only to make things worse. > > From what I read on various web sites, ALSA for via82xx is so buggy >that it's really not worth using yet. > Humm, then why is everything running fine here, using alsa, on a via82xx chipset, an 8233 TBE. Check your lsmod output against this:
Module Size Used by snd_seq_oss 32896 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7744 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 51408 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_pcm_oss 50792 0 snd_mixer_oss 18624 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_via82xx 25860 2 snd_ac97_codec 65860 1 snd_via82xx snd_pcm 92644 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx snd_timer 24964 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm snd_mpu401_uart 7488 1 snd_via82xx snd_rawmidi 24448 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 8072 3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi snd 54500 14 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
All this on a 2.6.8-rc1-mm1 kernel.
xmms runs fine, tvtime runs fine, I can play a cd or a realaudio stream from the net, and the sound is pretty decent.
-- Cheers, Gene There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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