Gnome sound

[mike]

On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 08:54 -0400, Gene C. wrote:
> On Thursday 22 April 2004 08:28, Elaine Normandy wrote:
> > I saw a brief question on this topic a few days ago, but it didn't go
> > anywhere.   I would like to try to get gnome sounds working on my PC.
> >
> > Card:  VT82C686 AC97 (Via Technologies)
> > Driver: snd-via82xx
> >
> > After a reboot, I have to run system-config-soundcard to use XMMS.
> > Then, playing ogg files with XMMS works fine.  I can also use the CD
> > Player after setting the control with alsamixer.  The command aplay also
> > works.
> >
> > Nothing I seem to do with alsamixer ( or gnome-alsamixer) makes the
> > gnome sounds appear.  I've noticed one curiosity in gnome-alsamixer
> > where some of the controls are doubled (this seems to be in Bugzilla) .
> >

silly questions - 

have you got gnome-audio installed (this has the actual sounds)

have you tried going to preferences->sound and checking sound-server
startup and sounds for events are checked

Also does RB work Ok?
> > Any suggestions?  I use yum update every morning so my installation
> > ought to be reasonably current.
> 
> In my case the sound adapter is on the motherboard (ASUS SK8V with Opteron 
> 140):
> 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
> VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
> 


no problems here

/sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400] Chipset Host
Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0
controller] (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0
controller] (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0
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/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)

wierd thing is its using alsa but loading the oss compat stuff

eg: lsmod gives
snd  47716  15
snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device

> I gave up and disabled the adapter on the motherboard.  Plugged in an Ensoniq 
> ES1371 and it works fine.
> 
> There appears to be something basically broken with the snd-via82xx.  I posted 
> stuff here and on the alsa mailing list but got nothing.  There is still an 
> bugzilla report open on this but I am not hopeful on a solution any time 
> soon.  
> 
> In my situation I was able to use another sound adapter.  If you have this 
> situation on a laptop, you may be SOL.  I believe the OSS stuff is still in 
> the kernel but not enabled.  You may be able to create your own kernel with 
> OSS enabled and ALSA disabled.  However, I am not sure how the rest of the 
> stuff (e.g., kudzu) will handle things.
> -- 
> Gene
> 
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