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Has anyone got onboard sound working on Athlon boards?
I'm not sure, but I think all boards use VIA chips for sound.

I tried compiling the kernel with VIA82CXXX and SOUND as modules, but it hangs
when I try to play sound with sndconfig, or when I try to load the module at
boot time.

BTW, I'm using an Asus K7M, kernel version 2.2.14, redhat 6.2.
Aside from the sound problem, the board works great.
Even IDE drives (BM-DMA) work great, which surprised me.

Thanks,
    Richard

Quote:> Has anyone got onboard sound working on Athlon boards?
> I'm not sure, but I think all boards use VIA chips for sound.

> I tried compiling the kernel with VIA82CXXX and SOUND as modules, but it hangs
> when I try to play sound with sndconfig, or when I try to load the module at
> boot time.

> BTW, I'm using an Asus K7M, kernel version 2.2.14, redhat 6.2.
> Aside from the sound problem, the board works great.
> Even IDE drives (BM-DMA) work great, which surprised me.

> Thanks,
>     Richard

i'm running an asustek K7M, with an athlon 500 MHz, RedHat 6.1, the sound works
perfectly.

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Quote:> Has anyone got onboard sound working on Athlon boards?
> I'm not sure, but I think all boards use VIA chips for sound.
...
> BTW, I'm using an Asus K7M,

I've got a K7M, and use the ALSA drivers (http://www.alsa-project.org).
They work quite well, but are a bit of a pain to compile and install. The
regular kernel drivers only support 8-bit sound, and are finicky at best,
in my experience.

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: Has anyone got onboard sound working on Athlon boards?
: I'm not sure, but I think all boards use VIA chips for sound.
:
: I tried compiling the kernel with VIA82CXXX and SOUND as modules, but it hangs
: when I try to play sound with sndconfig, or when I try to load the module at
: boot time.
:
: BTW, I'm using an Asus K7M, kernel version 2.2.14, redhat 6.2.
: Aside from the sound problem, the board works great.
: Even IDE drives (BM-DMA) work great, which surprised me.
:
: Thanks,
:     Richard
Try compiling just sound support as a module and use alsa. Worked perfectly
for me as long as you use a recent version of alsa.
cu,
   Markus

I have an AOpen AK72 motherboard (Via KX133) chipset.  The ALSA driver
(version 0.5.7) works pretty well, but I'm getting some weird
glitches.  It sounds like the driver is occasionally throwing away a
few thousand samples, and skipping immediately to the following data.

Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to reproduce this. I've tried
stressing the CPU, the disk, and my ethernet connection, and none of
these reliably cause the problem.  I listen to music pretty much
constantly whenever I'm at my computer, and all I can say is I'm
hearing glitches often enough to be annoying.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?  Any suggestions?

- Derek

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Quote:

> I have an AOpen AK72 motherboard (Via KX133) chipset.  The ALSA driver
> (version 0.5.7) works pretty well, but I'm getting some weird
> glitches.  It sounds like the driver is occasionally throwing away a
> few thousand samples, and skipping immediately to the following data.

> Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to reproduce this. I've tried
> stressing the CPU, the disk, and my ethernet connection, and none of
> these reliably cause the problem.  I listen to music pretty much
> constantly whenever I'm at my computer, and all I can say is I'm
> hearing glitches often enough to be annoying.

> Has anyone else encountered this problem?  Any suggestions?

I've not encountered this on either of my systems that use this driver,
but I don't use the sound system nearly as heavily as you apparently do.
There is, however, an ALSA mailing list. I believe there's mention of it
on the ALSA web site (http://www.alsa-project.org). You might want to
join it and post about the problem, or see if there's a searchable
archive to the mailing list on the web site.

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http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration

I have a Tyan S2380 with KX133 chipset and use the onboard sound in
Win98 and Win2K.  Both Win OS's exhibit the breaking up ("Skipping")
that you describe, but only on startup or when the CPU is heavily loaded
(which is not all that often on the 600Mhz Athlon (yet!)).  I imagine
it would not do well playing games, but I'm not into that (yet!).
I have not gotten it to work in Linux (yet!) but I'm working on it.
I am compiling the alsa module now and don't see the VIA82CXXX in the
list of "boards".  Any advice would be appreciated.  TIA.

Dave D.