ASUS SK8V and Sound

[Mark]

On April 15, 2004 04:09 am, Gene Czarcinski <gene at czarc.net> wrote:
> OK, I am looking for someone who has a ASUS SK8V motherboard (the one for
> socket940) and who is running Fedora Core 2 Test 2.  There appear to be a
> number of folks who have the ASUS K8V socket754 motherboard and it may
> truly be identical except for the socket but I do not know that so I am
> focusing on the SK8V.
>
> My problem is sound.  The SK8V has a VIA8322 adapter on the mobo ( VIA
> Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)).
>
> It does not work on FC2.  It works fine on FC1 but the sound drivers are
> OSS on FC1 and ALSA on FC2.

The OSS drivers don't really work. Try running a flash animation with sound. 
The OSS module installs but it doesn't have proper support for this sound 
chip.

> On FC2, everything (e.g, 
> system-config-soundcard) goes through the motions but no sound comes from
> the speakers.  es, I have the volume settings all maxed out and (after the
> selinux policy was fixed) that seems to be working ... but no sound.
>
> Anyone with an SK8V and running FC2, is your sound working or not?

It should be. You may want to patch the kernel with the current alsa patches. 
I know my S754 board works but I am running a custom kernel which is patched 
with the 1.04 drivers.

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