Re: [Sound] Sound on via vt8235 in RH 8.0

[Stijn Symons <stijn.symons@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks man,

there arevery good instructions for installing ALSA on RH 8:
http://freshrpms.net/docs/alsa/
I advise everyone who has probs with their sound to follow these
instruction, there good and fool-proof ;-)

good luck to all the people in no-sound-land,

stijn

Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:48:35AM +0530, Jatin Sharma wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > > Good Luck!!! Do not waste time to work on VIA chipset. It's very sick
> > > for Linux even with MS Window. I had to return the MB with VIA chipset.
> > > Finally Intel MB or some with INtel chipset are working fine. I had to
> > > back-and-forth 6 times to FRY to get the right one. Finally I got 
> > > 645E MAX with SIS 645DX chipset and it working fine. even with RealPlayer
> > > for Linux.
> > > Now I am happy with my Linux 8
> > >     
> >  
> > Is this applicable for sound only on a VIA chipset. I am planning to buy a
> > VIA MB, and plan to use in linux. However I don't have a need for sound. 
> > Does anyone has any idea how does a VIA MB perform in linux or is it even 
> > compatible ?
> >   
> Hi
>
> OSS (which is the sound code used by Linux 2.4 and older) doesn't support
> later VIA chipsets currently, but ALSA (which will eventually replace
> OSS, 2.5 has both) supports them very well. Easiest way to get ALSA running 
> is to get the RPMS from http://www.freshrpms.net, then configure it like this:
>
> # ALSA portion
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
> # module options should go here
> # OSS/Free portion
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx
> # card #1
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
>
> Works perfectly on my Asus A7V8X with a VIA KT400 and only takes a few
> minutes to get running from the rpms. I even have AC3 passthrough working
> (required a custom alsalib config file, but it was quite trivial to do)