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Bug 54905
| Summary: | Add support for newer VT8233 audio chips | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Martin Dahlberg <martin.dahlberg> | ||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 7.2 | CC: | a2d2, aldheorte, bas.alicante, bradley.g.smith, ckjohnson, craig.miller, davide_bolcioni, flemming, jds10, marius.andreiana, nicubunu, nishikantk, paul, peterm, vkamlesh78, wong_mp | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature | ||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||
| Last Closed: | 2003-01-14 22:10:55 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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| Bug Depends On: | |||||||
| Bug Blocks: | 74422 | ||||||
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Description
Martin Dahlberg
2001-10-22 22:43:58 UTC
Sounds like a driver problem - assigning to the kernel. * When booting up KDE, a dialog box pops up saying "Sound Server informational
message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be
opened (no such device). The sound server will continue, using the null output
device.
* Motherboard: Shuttle AK31 rev 3.1; KT266A chipset, VT8366A Northbridge,
VT8233 Southbridge
* Linux version 7.2, installed from the boxed set CD
* running sndconfig from a shell gives the following message:
PCI Probe Results:
" The VIA Technologies|AC97 Audio ?
? Controller is not supported ?
? currently; however, the ALSA project ?
? (http://www.alsa-project.org/) has a ?
? driver for this card."
* went to the ALSA site and looked at the documentation. There is a driver file, but
it is not clear whether this file would be safe to compile into the Linux kernel. Can I
get clarification/guidance from Red Hat?
* will a RHN update be made available that will update my Red Hat 7.2 so that the
AC97 sound will work?
This report sounds very similar to my problem. I have an Acer Travelmate 522TXV laptop. Sndconfig identifies the card ([ALi]|M5451 PCI South Bridge Audio) and identifies the appropriate driver (trident), which worked fine under RH 7.1. But I get no sound output (true for all three kernels -- 2.4.7-10, 2.4.9-7, 2.4.9-13). lsmod shows that soundcore, ac97_codec and trident are loaded. The IRQ and IOport shown in /proc are the right ones -- but no output. Most programs play an appropriate length of silence; xine segfaults when it reaches the audio setup section. Greetings, in my case (athlon, VIA VT82C686) sound works only if I launch gmixer first; subsequent investigation also turn out that /sbin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L also works. The above line (redirections omitted) was added to modules.conf by sndconfig (for sound-slot-0), but apparently it is not executed. I did some experimentation with modprobe -v, but even in the case when modprobe reported executing the above, i.e. with modprobe sound-slot-0, the speaker was silent until I ran the exact same line from the shell. I am suspecting some interaction with PAM manipulating permissions of the sound devices. Hmm. Running aumix-minimal "works" for me too. However, adding the command to the end of rc.local doesn't help -- as the previous contributor said, it really does have to be typed in at a shell prompt, so presumably it is executed from modules.conf but something stops it working properly. Also, though I now get sound after running the command, it still hasn't completely worked -- xine still segfaults when it reaches its audio setup section. Hmm again. Coincidence maybe, but since starting to use the aumix-minimal trick yesterday I have had two system crashes of a sort I have never seen before -- when I close the lid to suspend the machine, it freezes solid and I have to pull the plug. Back to 2.4.2-2 *again* ... I have a related problem. I have 2 users in addition to root on this system. Sound works some of the time, but often a user or root will get an informational message when KDE starts that says: Error while initializing the sound driver. device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied) The only solution I have found is a reboot. System: RedHat 7.2 upgraded from RedHat 7.1. Problem did not occur on RH 7.1. Sound card is a SB Live!. Please let me know if additional information is needed. Brad Smith This still seems to be the case on 8.0 for boards with newer VIA chipsets. I have a Gigabyte 7VRX with the following devices listed in lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8367 [KT266] 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8367 [KT333 AGP] 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 23) 00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 23) 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40) Sound does not work (even though it is recognised by sndconfig and redhat-config-sound), and the UATA133 support causes errors when there's a UATA33 DVD drive as a slave on the same bus. The via82cxxx_audio driver does not yet support VT8233 chipsets. *** Bug 74422 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 68207 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 75861 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 76318 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 64888 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 66385 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 75804 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 76516 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** It appears that the 2.4.18-17.7.x kernel is not exporting some symbols needed to link with the via82cxxx_audio module. Because 2.4.18-10 works, and the kernel code is not likely to drastically change for such a minor version no, I suspect that the cause could be setting a wrong switch when compiling. bought a new SiEMENS-PC with onboard VIA VT8233 AC97. get no sound in Linux RH 8. Win-Xp works properly. all other, like MDK, DEB or SUSI work proper too. RH 8 can4t find a /dev/dsp or /dev/dsp0. watched VIA Site. there is no driver for RH8 available (just RH7.3). somebody told me to use OSS drivers, but won4t work. ALSA doesn4t work with this kernel. I have exactly the same problem. Installed RH8.0 no problem while detecting the VIA VT8233 AC97, but no sound!! Is there already a solution for this problem? *** Bug 77917 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Created attachment 88064 [details]
Proposed patch, from Alan Cox, to add support for new Via audio chips
To all: Please try the above patch, just attached, from Alan Cox. It should provide support for VT8233 chips, which is the central problem behind this bug. Could someone direct me as to how to use that patch? I am 5 days old on Linux. Forgive me if this is not the place for this query. Thanks in advance, Narayan Hi, I am new to linux and just installed RH8.0 using via motherboard. can some kind soul email me the instructions (detail) how to download and install this patch? I see 'patch' , 'create a new attachment' , 'show dependencies' links in this mail. Please help. Thank you, nishikantk Note that VIA tech support recommend using the ALSA drivers. Installing alsa-kernel and alsa-driver from http://freshrpms.net and adding alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx below sound-slot-0 snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss to /etc/modules.conf did the trick for me. Question: When will ALSA be officially supported? ..wish a nice day toralf, ..read your news to ALSA for REDHAT8. thats all, just kernel and driver from source and some changes in modules.conf???? will it really work and solve that ugly sound problem with VT8233 for newer VIA-boards ???? I downloaded from "freshrpms" - alsa-kernel-o.9... as RPM and - alsa-driver-0.9... as SRC I will try and see. if there are some more tricks, plzz tell me :)) greets from germany Werner (a2d2) ..sorry , my system does not accept (AMD2200) plzz send me a detailed instruction list and plzz a copy of your /etc/modules.conf to my f.m. email-account ...seasons greets Werner I have tried to apply the patch to sources from kernel-2.4.18-18.8.0.src.rpm but "Hunk #6 FAILED at 372". Am I using the wrong sources? I'm new to this so would appreciate a pointer in the right direction. And a big THANK YOU to everyone involved in making it possible for me to have this great operating system. Alan Cox's patches for VT8233 audio support in via82cxxx_audio driver have been merged into the latest 8.1 beta kernel, so this issue has been resolved. I just upgraded my 8.0 system to the latest kernel in rawhide, and new sound driver works well for me. For the information of newbies who might want to try it, here is the rpm list which i installed due to dependencies: sndconfig-0.70-1 kudzu-0.99.86-1 kernel-2.4.20-2.9 hwdata-0.64-1 mkinitrd-3.4.34-1 modutils-2.4.22-3 I also had to recompile my NVIDIA_kernel, which didn't work because the new kernel was built with gcc 3.2.1 rather than 3.2 (with which the last 2.4.18 kernel was built). I reverted to the 2D nv driver in XFree86 for the time being and everything is happy. Looks like when 8.1 finishes its beta cycle, we will have pretty good support for VT8233! Thanks a lot! Sorry, but I'm not exactly new to Linux and I'm not sure what to do with this patch either, in the way of installing it. How is it installed? Actually, I'm using Fedora Core 2 but having the same problem and wanted to give the patch a try. Thank you. Kiblet, the audio chipset VT8233 should work out of the box in FC2, without any additional patch |