Hi, I am runnng SuSE 7.3 on an Asus AVA266E and it all works really well, except the onboard CM8378 soundchip. If I ever have hassle with linux its configuring sound cards. By building the driver into the kernel it sort of works OK, KDE plays its tune when it starts up and I can get sound out of it. If I try to configure the sound card in Yast 2 it detects it but complains it cannot load the module, even if I build it as module. Last time I had this there was a magic command I typed and it all worked, it wasnt sndconfig, has anybody got any tips or got this setup to work OK.
Its not a big problem, more of an annoyance really.

Geoff

What happens when you modprobe it?

If I build it as a module and modprobe cmpci it will load, the module the kernel builds is called cmpci, the module yast moans about is called snd-card-cmpci which may have something to do with it.
With cmpci loaded it does not work, no sound.
As I said with cmpci in the kernel it does work to a fashion.

Any thoughts from that, its kernel 2.4.18 btw, thanks for the reply...

Geoff

Ah... snd-card-XXXX as a prefix means that its using the alsa modules. (advanced Linux sound architecture), which isn't part of the mainstream kernel (yet, they're going to be in the 2.6.x series, but lets not go there yet). Normal old cmpci is part of the regular kernel sound modules.

I have a card that works on this module, well it works alright anyway. Compiled on its own, I would leave the options at 2 speakers and leave out those other 2 cutsie options like SPDIF loop or whatever they were. I would get decent play for a while, and then it would just go to 3 levels of confused. Its an el cheapo Guillemot card that uses the same chipset so your mileage may be better than mine.

Your problem, largely, is YaST trying to outsmart you. On my SuSe 7.3 sparc box I got tired of trying to configure sound through it and just stuck "modprobe mycard" in /etc/rc.d/boot.local so that it mod'ed on boot. Its a hackish cheat, but most of the GUI configurators and especially YaST have a while to go yet.

Cheers,

Finegan

Well that answers a few mysteries, I didn't know that. Well it seems to work with the cmpci built into the kernel so I reckon it's best to leave it in there, it seems to be comfortable with that arrangement.

I have had a peek at 2.5.15 and have noticed some major differences with the sound part, be interesting when it goes stable release.

Sound has always given me the run around with Linux, thanks for the help...

Geoff