[Gllug] SiS 7012 and sound

[Simon Stewart]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 05:09:49PM +0000, Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:38:28PM +0000, Simon Stewart wrote:
> > So, here's a good one. The OSS drivers (downloaded from
> > www.opensound.com) work fine with my SiS 7012 soundcard (built into my
> > work Athlon's mobo), but the equivalent modules from the linux source
> > tree completely fail to work properly, despite not reporting any
> > errors when insmodding the relevant modules.
> > 
> > Anyone had any experience getting this soundcard to work, and want to
> > share? On the (crap) SiS website there aren't any links to a relevant
> > sound module, which is a bit of a hinderance. Googling brings up an
> > interminable discussion about SiS being a bit difficult writing and
> > delivering their drivers. Grief.
> 
> My lappy has a SiS 7018 which works nicely with the kernel's standard
> trident driver.  Maybe worth a try.

Was indeed worth a try, but sadly it failed to work. FWIW, I've
managed to get the following modules inserted into the kernel without
a word of complaint (which suggests that they should be alright):

sms at lauren:/usr/src/linux$ sudo lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: PF
ad1848                 16736   0  (unused)
mpu401                 18944   0  (unused)
ac97_codec              9696   0
uart401                 6176   0
sound                  54796   0  [ad1848 mpu401 uart401]
soundcore               3684   2  [sound]

I've removed the lines that aren't of any relevance, FWIW. After
poking about on the Net, I _think_ the correct driver is the ac97 one,
but no joy so far. Still get errors like this one, though:

sms at lauren:/usr/src/linux$ mpg123 /home/sms/mp3/fats\ domino\ -\ there\ goes\ my\ heart\ again.mp3
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3.
Version 0.59r (1999/Jun/15). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp.
Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Can't open default sound device!

Which in turn indicates that something is awry. 

Cheers,

Simon

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