[Wolves] soundcard

[Ron Wellsted]

On Thursday 30 October 2003 8:46 pm, Wayne Morris wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 17:45, Rachael Baylis wrote:
> > I'm trying to get my soundcard working with the Red Hat 8.0. The
> > soundcard is
> > onboard, and the computer is detecting it as a PCI card
> > Model: VIA Technologies | VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller
> > It won't play the test sound, or, indeed, anything, and when I try to
> > configure it
> > manually using sndconfig I get an error message:
> >
> > The following error occurred running the modprobe program:
> >
> > /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/sound/via82cxxx_audio.o:
> > init_module: No such device
> > /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/sound/via82cxxx_audio.o:
> > insmod
> > /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/sound/via82cxxx_audio.o
> > failed
> > /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/sound/via82cxxx_audio.o:
> > insmod sound-slot-0 failed
> >
> > What do I do? The information I can find after a quick Google mostly
> > seems to be dealing with configuring soundcards where onboard
> > sound is present but not wanted.
> >
> > TIA
> > Rachael
(Top posting corrected)
> Here is a link for someone with same card:
>
> http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/22487.html
>
> One says no problem with it and gives his config, other says he couldn't
> get it to work, another says check enabled in bios.
>
> From what I remember a AC97 computer I had would not work in RH8 , but
> worked straight away with RH9 (I was particulary interested in why - I
> was using it as a webserver.)
>
> HTH
>
>
> Btw, does everyone know google has a Linux search engine at
> http://www.google.co.uk/linux
>
> even has Tux as part of the google logo!

I have this and it works fine with SuSE 8.2/9.0  which uses alsa, (which maybe 
why RH9 works OK).

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