Multimedia :: Sound with Via VT1708A

Hello,

I received my fanless silent via epia motherboard today. (The old one had a fan which was a little too loud ...)

But the new one is totally silent .... the sound does not work. (There is no way to configure the bios as "Soundblaster" as I could do with my old board ....)

The soundchip is a VT1708A

When I start DSL with the ALSA keyword, the card is detected when booting. I start XMMs, swich to alsa, but get the error message that my sound card is not configured properly.

In myDSL I found several alsa scripts:

I downloaded:

gnu-Utilis
Also
(Did not help ...)

In the meantime I found out, that according to via they do not support standard alsa sound driver ...

But on www.viaarena.com they list a lot of linux distros with drivers for this chip.
SO MY QUESTION: Is DSL a distro similar to slackware, debian, redhat, ubuntu ... or is it a distro of its own??

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Rigas

of course DSL is it's own distro..

Try downloading the source and compiling yourself

Ok,

I tried compiling. I installed gcc and started the installation, which includes compiling the drivers.

It produced a lot of output, with the following line, which seems like an error to me:

Makefile.conf ... no such file or directory.

Nevertheless, it created an alsa directory with a script "configure" in it.

I started that ... it ended with:

the file lib/modules/2.4.26/build/include/linux/version.h does not exist.
Please install the package with full kernel sources ...

So what do I have to install, before I compile the drivers ....?

Well, found it out myself: Package "Kernelsource" now the compilation seems to go through (it takes longer, produces more files, no error messages ...)

But this is obviously not the end .... it creates a lot of files and dirs .. but it does not install the driver. I have the impression, that it want me to compile the kernel from scratch ... for alsa.

Uffff ... any help is very wellcome ...

Thanx in advance

Rigas

Oops, you need The Kernel Headers... Don't remember the name of the MyDSL ext, but the description says "use these when you need to compile drivers"

Thanks,

I think we wrote at same time ....

Rigas

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