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VIA VT82C686A/B
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6 23983 12-07-2004
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Description: This sound card is built into many laptops and more than a few desktop moterboards. After some trial and error I have goten this card to sould better in ALSA than my friend Sound Blaster 5.1 with windows drivers.

Pros: Cheap, Easy to Setup, Very nice sound output, can be turned off in BIOS, and it does not take up a pci slot.

Cons: None that I can think of right now.
Keywords: VIA AC 97 onboard chip
/sbin/lspci output: 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97Controller (rev 50)
Chipset: VT82C686
Connection Type: onboard


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Old 03-01-2004, 09:12 AM   #1
Oliv'
 
Registered: Jan 2004
Distribution: Gentoo
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.24
Distribution: LFS-5.0



The interesting thing with this card is its full compatibility with OSS drivers (official sound architecture in kernel 2.4 and previous) and ALSA drivers (sound architecture in kernel 2.6).
The install is very easy as the kernel provides the drivers unless you want ALSA drivers with 2.4 kernels but the compilation doesn't set problems
 
Old 03-12-2004, 05:36 PM   #2
wslyhbb
 
Registered: Apr 2002
Distribution: Mandriva 2009.0 PowerPack x86_64
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.22
Distribution: Mandrake 9.2


Hey, can you explain how to do the ALSA thing with the 2.4 kernel. I have the 2.4 kernel and my sound does work but it sounds pretty bad, at least on XMMS.
 
Old 03-12-2004, 09:54 PM   #3
netkinex
 
Registered: Sep 2003
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.21-192-athlon
Distribution: Suse


This current Suse dist(10) needed no prompting or tweeking at all - volume seems a little lacking... but I am a newbe and do not have any idea what to even try to get a better response

I also have an install of FreeBSD 5.2.1 and same story - works fine with no intervention.. yet I find it lacking in volume compared to a windows standard install of the same hardware
 
Old 05-09-2004, 09:43 PM   #4
John5788
 
Registered: Feb 2004
Distribution: Gentoo
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.5
Distribution: Gentoo


works all fine so far, except MP3 playback has a slight scratch sound.
 
Old 07-22-2004, 04:39 PM   #5
darkleaf
 
Registered: Jun 2004
Distribution: debian SID
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Kernel (uname -r): kernel 2.6.7
Distribution: debian


No problems so far.
 
Old 12-07-2004, 06:12 AM   #6
rainerh
 
Registered: Dec 2004
Distribution: Debian
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.8.1
Distribution: Debian


hi,

it's working on my laptop too. but it seems that midi is not supported.
does somebody know why?
 




  



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