No sound with Via 8235 and Slackware 12

jonlake · 04-21-2008, 11:26 AM

I just recently installed slackware 12. I have a motherboard with a Via 8235 onboard sound card. From the googling I've done, it appears most peoples solution entailed playing with the settings in alsamixer until they found what has worked. One was to mute everything except PCM and Master Volume. I tried that and it didn't work. I also tried turning everything up 100% and still no sound. I've toggled all the switches with no change. Here is the info.

Code:

jon@evilpenguin:~$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (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/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3 Ti 200] (rev a3)

jon@evilpenguin:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nvidia               4712592  22 
snd_seq_dummy           6788  0 
snd_seq_oss            32896  0 
snd_seq_midi_event     10112  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                50640  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss            42784  0 
snd_mixer_oss          18048  1 snd_pcm_oss
nfsd                  209904  13 
exportfs                8576  1 nfsd
lockd                  61576  2 nfsd
sunrpc                149980  8 nfsd,lockd
ipv6                  254496  10 
capability              7304  0 
commoncap               9344  1 capability
lp                     13736  0 
parport_pc             27812  1 
parport                34760  2 lp,parport_pc
pcspkr                  6528  0 
psmouse                39048  0 
serio_raw               9220  0 
shpchp                 33172  0 
i2c_viapro             11668  0 
i2c_core               21120  2 nvidia,i2c_viapro
ehci_hcd               34700  0 
snd_via82xx            26520  3 
gameport               15112  1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec         98980  1 snd_via82xx
ac97_bus                6016  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                72068  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              22532  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         11528  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart        10496  1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi            22560  1 snd_mpu401_uart
via_agp                12160  1 
snd_seq_device         10508  4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
agpgart                31432  2 nvidia,via_agp
snd                    47204  17 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
uhci_hcd               25612  0 
via_rhine              24968  0 
mii                     8576  1 via_rhine
soundcore               9824  1 snd
evdev                  11904  1 

jon@evilpenguin:~$ uname -a
Linux evilpenguin 2.6.21.5-jon1 #4 SMP Sun Apr 20 15:06:17 EDT 2008 i686 AMD Duron(tm) processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

I've tried everything I can think of and am out of ideas.

onebuck · 04-21-2008, 08:16 PM

Hi,

You did run 'alsaconf'? Then run the 'alsamixer' and be sure to do 'alsactl store'.

jonlake · 04-22-2008, 12:34 AM

Thanks for the reply. I had run alsaconfig and it found the onbaord card, and ran alsa mixer moving everything up to 100%, but it still didn't work.

This is my roomate's old motherboard and he isn't sure if the onboard audio actually works, as he used a PCI audio card. I decided to put the audio card in there and it works so I am content with that.