I have several J7F2 boards from Jetway, containing a 8237 via sound device on the south bridge. Using the alsa-driver, when I increase the volume then at some point all over sudden the sound stops. On some boards this happens at 75%, on others already at 60%, or 90%. Bringing the volume down again does not bring the audio back ... I am using the alsa-drivers with MPlayer. Although to me this smells like a hardware problem, I understand from googling around that this can be fixed with software, but I cannot find the correct solution anywhere. I have tested with gentoo kernels 2.6.22 and 2.6.24. AFAIK there are only 2 ways to get the sound back once it has stopped: 1) reset the mobo 2) rmmod snd-via82xx, followed by modprobe snd-via82xx The strange thing is that in option 2), the problem seems to be gone once the driver has been reloaded; from that moment on it is working fine ....! There is a driver from Via Arena (viaudiocombo) that seems to work fine, but it is OSS i.o. ALSA, and also a development by Via Arena i.o. the Linux community. Besides, I need synchronization features from the audio driver, and I do not think that OSS support this (not 100% sure). Can anyone help me and shed light on this? TIA! Zoilo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
