i've spent the whole day looking for the proper drivers for my motherboard and I can't seem to find any that exist for an OS other than windows. heres the info i currently have if anyone will help me out:

motherboard: Apollo KT133 motherboard
model: M7VKB

northbridge: VT8363
southbridge: VT82C686/A

if anyone can help me out it will be greatly appreciated

The drivers for the chipset are compiled right into the default Slack kernels... all of them as far as I know.

For the soundcard, what's the output of /sbin/lspci

Cheers,

Finegan

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 10)
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 10)
00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 20)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3 Ti200] (rev a3)



theres the output i recieved

thanks in advanced for any help

/sbin/modprobe via82cxxx_audio

Then add that line to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules so that module loads on boot. To make certain a user can use the sound output, you will probably have to chmod the sound device (mistake in Slack 8.1),

chmod 666 /dev/dsp

also, maybe /dev/mixer

Test the sound first as root then as Joe user.

Cheers,

Finegan

thanks so much finegan finally i can enjoy those mp3's i enjoyed on windoze im so close to being fully moved over to linux, 2 huge steps i took in 1 day dang im happy

ok um my sound worked for mp3's (havent tried wavs yet) but i tried midi's and that doesnt work it said something about /dev/sequencer

can you help me now? hehe

Did it say the device didn't exist, or that you didn't have rights to use it? If its the second problem, just chmod it too. If its the first problem, it might be that the module doesn't support midi, which is doubtful...

Don't sweat .wavs, if mp3s play, they should.

Cheers,

Finegan

said:

couldnt open /dev/sequencer

probably there is another program using it

nevermind i fixed problem on my own thx for the help though

Hi Raziel,
I experienced exactly the same problem. Could you please share how you fixed it?

Thanks,

Hi Raziel,

I have tried very hard but still have no any clue about what could be wrong. Would you please share what did you do to fix this problem?

Thanks,

I've finally returned to linux and now I've forgotten what it was I did =\

I wish I told you two what I did, now I'm SOL