mi-chou Posted December 12, 2003 Report Share Posted December 12, 2003 Well, I'm having a ECS mainboard with a integrated VIA soundcard (VIA8235 on a VIA-KT333). The distro provides 2 drivers for this soundcard snd-via82xx and via82cxxx_audio. with the first one, i get full duplex (more than one program using the sound at a time), but awful quality (buzzes, crackings, so on). With the other one I get very good sound, but no duplex (eg if i play xmms, other progs using sound freeze until they can play). Ca anyone help me? Do you think there are extra-options to be specified in /etc/modules.conf? Thanks a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted December 12, 2003 Report Share Posted December 12, 2003 i did a bit of searching and haven't found a good answer, except that the issue w/the via82cxxx_audio is a known one...i'll keep hunting, but for now, have you tried playing with any of the other options in Mandrake Control Center for the snd-via82xx module to see if it helps get rid of the sound problems? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 12, 2003 Report Share Posted December 12, 2003 I have an abit k7 via kt400 mobo with the 8235 and it's better than my sb 16 pci :o . I use the alsa driver . What do ya get with [root@ml root]# ls /proc/asound card0/ cards devices modules oss/ pcm seq/ timers V8235@ version [root@ml root]# cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [V8235 ]: VIA8233 - VIA 8235 VIA 8235 at 0xe400, irq 22 [root@ml root]# cat /proc/asound/devices 0: [0- 0]: ctl 17: [0- 1]: digital audio playback 25: [0- 1]: digital audio capture 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture 1: : sequencer 33: : timer [root@ml root]# and [root@ml root]# lspci -vv 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 1401 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 22 Region 0: I/O ports at e400 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- I put the following in /etc/rc.d/rc.local echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq find out yours with cat /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq i think the default is 64 but my sound with both pc's and 3 soundcards would skip if I didn't do the above. here is 'where' in the file I put it elif [ $SECURE_LEVEL -ge 4 ]; then rm -f /etc/issue /etc/issue.net fi echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq touch /var/lock/subsys/local doing echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq in a terminal as root should change it on the fly, but if it doesn't help, reboot (or go to init 1 and back) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted December 14, 2003 Report Share Posted December 14, 2003 I use the driver too ... the ..cxxxx-module is for alsa. Can it be that you don't have hardware-multiplexing(that it can play more streams at once)? The latest alsa releases can do sofwtare-multiplexing. Don't know wich version of alsa is included in 9.2 though. To enable it you have to add some line sin /etc/asound.conf or the local-stuff. But don't know if you have hardware-mutliplexing .. if that is the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted December 14, 2003 Report Share Posted December 14, 2003 (edited) If you type the stuff what bvc mentionned you can see if it accepts multiple streams I think ... I have to install the software-mulmtiplexing myself, but I've heard it should work now. Edited December 14, 2003 by Michel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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