Does any version of zenwalk support VIA soundcard???
 

Hey friends, I have VIA8233 Soundcard in my system(as shown by suse10.1). So does zenwalk provides a driver for this sound card so that i can play multimedia files. I tried 2.8 live cd but i cudnt play the songs bcoz the application call mixerconfig didnt detected any sound card at all there.

I wanted to give suggestion for the developers that the front end style for that mixerconfig isnt that innovative, so try to change it like suse or other distro has.

Thanks

No reply???????????????

what show(as root):
lspci
try (as root):
modprobe snd-via82xx;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss

from my lspci on this old laptop

00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 20)

using
# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.17.11 (me@zenwalk) (gcc version 3.4.6) #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 5 16:25:38 CEST 2006

so it supports this VIA sound

did you try the modprobe ? (the via-82xx especially)

if it work after (don't forget to run alsamixer and unmute ;)), you can uncomment it in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules to have it on boot

Hi

I'm running Zenwalk 3.0 and there's no problem with my VIA sound. It's on an ASUS A8V-Delux motherboard. Default install. Only tweak to the system is proprietary ati drivers.

root[~]# lspci | grep audio
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)

root[~]# lsmod | grep snd
snd_seq_oss 19200 0
snd_seq_midi_event 3456 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 29264 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss 25376 0
snd_mixer_oss 10752 3 snd_pcm_oss
snd_via82xx 13592 2
gameport 5768 1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec 60576 1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_bus 1536 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 45572 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 11908 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 4616 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 3456 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 11168 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 3596 3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd 26596 11 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu40 1_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 3936 3 snd

alsamixer && zenwalk 6.0
 

Alsamixer solved my problem of low volume (After having upgrading to zenwalk 6.0).- THANKS.-