Re: Sound on a VIA8235

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

Hi Martin,

At Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:28:47 +0100,
Martin Haefele wrote:
> 
> Dear Takashi Iwai,
> 
> I write to you directly and not via a mailing list, because I already 
> have problems with SPAM and do not want to increase it. Hope that's okay 
> anyway.

doesn't matter, but i add Cc to alsa-devel ML, too, so that other
people can help you, too.

 
> On the sourceforge pages of the alsa project, I found out that you 
> initiated a call for testers for the above chip on Jan, 9th. And as you 
> suggested in your call, I used the latest CVS version of the 
> alsa-drivers plus the VIA8233[A].conf files.
 
you don't need VIA8233A.conf, btw.


> But the problem is, that I hardly can hear sound coming from the 
> speakers. I unmuted everything, but nothing helped very much. If 
> everything is at 100% and my HIFI volume is at 100% as well, then one 
> can hear sound coming from the speakers if and only if one is standing 
> right in front of them. The hardware is a ASRock K7VT2 with VIA8235 
> Southbridge. All that I could gather as information follows as attachment.

try to raise and unmute "Headphone" volume.
it's a kind of bug in alsa driver, because this volume is not really a
headphone but a "true line-out" volume according to the definition of
AC97 spec 2.2.


Takashi


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