Via High Definition Audio Controller

[Jim]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 20:28 -0400, Jim wrote:
>   
>> Nigel Henry wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wednesday 19 March 2008 23:55, Jim wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> FC8-i386  KDE  2.6.24.3-34.fc8
>>>> My Sound card in a laptop is a VIA Tech, "VIA High Definition Audio
>>>> Controller" and all the drivers are loading but it has no sound.
>>>> I have heard through the Grapvine that the PCM device VT1708 was broken
>>>> in 2.6.24, any truth to that ?
>>>> The Soundcard Detection debug files are listed below,   scsrun.log and
>>>> scsconfig.log.
>>>> Who can read and understand these two files.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>                                                         scsrun.log
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------- System Config Soundcard Log --------
>>>> Wed Mar 19 17:27:52 EDT 2008
>>>>
>>>> aplay: main:546: audio open error: Device or resource busy
>>>> *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
>>>> amixer: Mixer attach default error: Connection refused
>>>> *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
>>>> amixer: Mixer attach default error: Connection refused
>>>> ProbeCards, method =  hal
>>>> --------- Card 0 --------
>>>> Active 1
>>>> Vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
>>>> Model: VIA High Definition Audio Controller
>>>> Driver: snd-hda-intel
>>>>
>>>> Volume: 75
>>>> Devices:
>>>> [[0, ' VT1708 Analog ']]
>>>> Test device 0
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Hi Jim. As I'm totally obsessed by pulseaudio causing sound problems on F8, 
>>> I'd suggest removing the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package, then see if the 
>>> sound works.
>>>
>>> Just a shot in the dark, and maybe I've got pulseaudio on the brain, but other 
>>> folks have got their sounds up by removing that package.
>>>
>>> Nigel.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I deleted the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package but that didn't help at all.
>> There is a check box in Soundcard Detection app that allows you to 
>> disable the Alsa plugins.
>>
>> Thanks for your help
>>
>>     
> The check box is irrelevant in my opinion. But with the
> alsa-plugins-pulseaudio rpm removed you should not get any pulseaudio
> eroros. So what is happening now?
> Is the card detected? Is the test sound heard?
>
> There are many of us who have been through this sound failure problem.
> Has alsamixer been run? And so on.. 
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I did remove the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio and checked alsa-mixer, but to 
no avail, rebooted box and sound still doesn't work.