No Sound in a VIA Technologies VT8233

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: No Sound in a VIA Technologies VT8233
started by: Onyarian

Posted by Onyarian on Mar. 30 2006,21:14

I have a pendrive installation with DSL 2.3. If I boot in a PC with sb I have sound. But in my PC I can't play anything.

In System stats the output in Hardware is:
SOUND_FULLNAME="VIA Technologies VT8233 (AC97 Audio Controller)"
SOUND_DRIVER="via82cxxx_audio"

The lsmod output:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
sg 25884 0 (autoclean)
mousedev 3832 0 (unused)
hid 22372 0 (unused)
input 3168 0 [mousedev hid]
loop 46640 9 (autoclean)
af_packet 13544 0 (autoclean)
reiserfs 169616 0 (autoclean)
ext3 64452 0 (autoclean)
jbd 46516 0 (autoclean) [ext3]
nls_iso8859-1 2844 0 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 4348 0 (autoclean)
via82cxxx_audio 19448 0
ac97_codec 11916 0 [via82cxxx_audio]
uart401 6052 0 [via82cxxx_audio]
sound 55276 0 [via82cxxx_audio uart401]
e1000 65996 0
tuner 9440 1 (autoclean)
tvaudio 12444 0 (autoclean) (unused)
bttv 96352 0 (unused)
i2c-algo-bit 6952 1 [bttv]
i2c-core 12228 0 [tuner tvaudio bttv i2c-algo-bit]
soundcore 3428 4 [via82cxxx_audio sound bttv]
videodev 5600 2 [bttv]
parport_pc 24840 0
parport 22496 0 [parport_pc]
serial 52100 0 (autoclean)
pcmcia_core 39840 0
rtc 7036 0 (autoclean)
cloop 8740 4
ieee1394 183076 0
usb-storage 61696 1
usb-uhci 21644 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 16392 0 (unused)
usbcore 57600 1 [hid usb-storage usb-uhci ehci-hcd]
ataraid 6180 0
ide-cd 28512 0
ide-scsi 8816 0
--------------------------------------------------

and the dmesg:
...
eth0: Intel® PRO/1000 Network Connection
Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac3
via82cxxx: Six channel audio available
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:11.5 to 64
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ADS112 (Unknown)
via82cxxx: board #1 at 0xC800, IRQ 10
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
...

so.. what to put in modprobe as io, irq, dma, dma16 and mpu_io to work correctly?

Thanks for the help!

Onyarian

Posted by doobit on Mar. 30 2006,21:21

I'm having the same problem, but I think it's hardware in my case. In your case, If you are using alsa, open a terminal and type in alsamixer. Then unmute everything using the m key. Only mute the external amp.

Posted by Onyarian on April 03 2006,21:32

Doobit, thanks.

Now I have sound in my PC, but first I have to boot with "dsl alsa" and to load gnu-utils.dsl, dsl-dpgk.dsl and alsadebs.dsl, and last Alsa install.

Do you know the difference between alsadebs.dsl and alsa.dsl?. With the second one it doesn't work.

Thanks

Posted by doobit on April 03 2006,22:15

They are for different kernel versions. The info about that is in the info file.
Also, if you put the gnu-utils and alsadebs and dsldbpkg files in the top directory of
the pendrive then they will load automatically. I put dsl alsa in my boot line when I installed, so it loads automatically.