Re: [Sound] on-board sound (Realtek AC97)

[Stijn Symons <stijn.symons@xxxxxxx>]

check a few threads up, I had the same problem... Look at the
www.freshrpms.net website, there is a tutorial for installing ALSA on
RH8

stijn

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 12:04, Brian Schmidt wrote:
> > I recently upgraded my computer and am now running with a Gigabyte
> > GA-7VAXP motherboard.  It uses the AC97 Realtek ALC650 on-board sound. Red
> > Hat's detection thinks it's a VIA VT8233 device and wants to set it up as
> > such using via82cxxx_audio.  However, this doesn't work.
> >   
>
> The Red Hat detection is sort of right. The ALC650 is the D/A convertor
> side. The PCI side is VIA audio. However the driver doesnt support
> 8233/8235. I've fixed this very recently but Red Hat have yet to release
> a kernel with this support.
>
> > My sister has this same motherboard and when I set up Red Hat on her
> > system, I just went ahead and used ALSA and it worked just fine and
> > actually seems to sound better than my previous SoundBlaster Live! using
> > OSS.  However, I have a couple of games that will only work with OSS, so I
> > would like to have that working. Any ideas?  Experiences with this audio
> > device?  I'm fairly new to having to tweak anything sound-related, since
> > I'd always had a SoundBlaster card in the past which Just Worked.
> >   
>
> ALSA supports the 8233/8235 yes.
>
>
>
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