Re: Fwd: [Alsa-user] VIA VT8235 (ALC201) problems

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

Hi,

please try the cvs version.
the via8233 (and via686) driver has been changed much on cvs since
0.9.0rc3.  now they are merged as a unifed module "snd-via82xx".


Takashi

At Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:28:19 +0200,
Joachim Blaabjerg wrote:
> 
> I'm forwarding this to -devel, just in case you guys know something that the 
> folks on -user don't.
> 
> I guess I should mention that I sometimes get this error message while 
> attempting to play sound (not always, though):
> 
> ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:398:(snd_pcm_hw_prepare) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_PREPARE failed: 
> Device or resource busy
> 
> Some times I get that error, although the sound continues to play. FWIW, I use 
> Linux 2.4.19 with a huge patchset (sys-kernel/lolo-sources i Gentoo/Portage).
> 
> This might be very irrelevant and uninteresting, but I tried getting it to 
> work again just now, and this quote is a bit incorrect:
> 
> > It tends to play sounds very, very slowly, and 1/10 second samples over and 
> > over again (perhaps 20 times).
> 
> It's more like 0.5 second samples that are played five times. :P
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> 
> Subject: [Alsa-user] VIA VT8235 (ALC201) problems
> Date: Wednesday 16 October 2002 15:49
> From: Joachim Blaabjerg <styx@gentoo.org>
> To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I recently bought an EPoX 8K5A2 motherboard, with an onboard ALC201 sound
> chip. This motherboard utilizes VIA's new VT8235 south bridge (as opposed to
> VT8233 in most other recent VIA chipset boards), which I think may be the
> cause of my sound problems. I've tried various ALSA drivers with little or no
> success; neither of via82cxxx_audio, snd-via686a or snd-intel8x0 will load
> (init_module: No such device).
> 
> There is however one driver that does load: snd-via8233. Sadly, this driver
> fails to produce anything but noise. It tends to play sounds very, very
> slowly, and 1/10 second samples over and over again (perhaps 20 times).
> 
> I've looked at the RealTek site, and they offer driver downloads. This is
>  just a repackaging of alsa-driver-0.9.0_rc3 (which I am using), and a
>  prewritten modules.conf that utilises the snd-via8233 module.
> 
> Has anyone had any luck with this sound chip/motherboard?
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
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