Which distro for ASUS's A7V8X

bru · 05-11-2004, 11:15 AM

Hey Axion,
Sorry man but I had to run to work, and wont be back till later tonight. But If you could still hook me up it would be much apreciated.

vectordrake · 05-11-2004, 04:57 PM

ALSA seems to support this chipset. The module is snd-via82xx Seems that the OSS drivers had a flaw, so the ALSA drivers were written from scratch. As far as 2.6 kernels, seems that the module was integrated in 2.6.0, so after should work. There's enough to go on here. Your sound will work. We just have to coax it to.

BTW, can you post the results of lspci?

Axion · 05-11-2004, 06:09 PM

I apologize, but the kernel feature I told you to enable is not for sound, but for a lot of VIA motherboards, specifically the IDE bus on them. As I remember, I did have to enable this option on my motherboard in order to make use of DMA for my hard disks, so I'm sure this isn't going to help you much. Yes, please paste the output of lspci

bru · 05-11-2004, 07:58 PM

(This is from with in Mandrake)

Code:

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge
00:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46)
00:08.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20376 (rev 02)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)

Code:

 lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge
        Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V8X motherboard
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0
        Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
 
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
        Memory behind bridge: e6000000-e7dfffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e7f00000-efffffff
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
 
00:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller
        Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
        Memory at e5800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        I/O ports at d800 [size=128]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
 
00:08.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20376 (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 807e
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 10
        I/O ports at d400 [size=64]
        I/O ports at d000 [size=16]
        I/O ports at b800 [size=128]
        Memory at e5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Memory at e4800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
 
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V8X motherboard
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Expansion ROM at e7ef0000 [disabled] [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
 
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V8X motherboard
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
        I/O ports at b400 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
 
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V8X motherboard
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
        I/O ports at b000 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
 
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V8X motherboard
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3
        I/O ports at a800 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
 
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
        Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V8X motherboard
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3
        Memory at e3800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
 
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
        Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V8X motherboard
        Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
 
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V8X motherboard
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
        I/O ports at a400 [size=16]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
 
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
        Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V8X Motherboard (Realtek ALC650 codec)
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 6
        I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
 
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
        Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Expansion ROM at e7ff0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0

vectordrake · 05-11-2004, 09:14 PM

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...module=via82xx seems to be the page you'll need to refer to if the driver isn't already installed. In Mandrake 9.2 is ALSA installed?

bru · 05-12-2004, 12:29 PM

I'll have to check tonight when I get home

bru · 05-13-2004, 11:10 AM

As Far as I can tell I have alsa installed

vectordrake · 05-13-2004, 07:16 PM

try as root to run alsaconfig and see if your sound chip is on the list. Perhaps its there and you don't know it. That'd be kool! Good luck. Post results.

bru · 05-13-2004, 08:47 PM

I got ALSA configuered using

Code:

alsaconf

and it used the via82xx stuff. So this now gives me great hope about other distros!!! Hopefuly in a couple weekends I'll get a chance to install a new distro!!!

Thanks vectordrake & Axion

vectordrake · 05-14-2004, 07:27 AM

Welcome to the world of Linux sound. Now you have the opportunity to pay it forward

bru · 05-14-2004, 12:03 PM

Thanks man!!!