Via Technologies VT82C686 [Apollo Super] on board sound...

I can't get my onboard sound to work. It is Via Technologies VT82C686
[Apollo Super. I tried uncommenting the Via82XXX module in rc.d
modules and after reboot my mouse no longer worked. I have tried to
configure alsamixer. It makes funny noises. It works on an off. It has
intermittent squeals. It mostly sounds like static. I have tried every
combination I can find when googling or can research in the books I
have.

Please help.

Rory Jakes
roryjakes@yahoo.com

Rory Jakes wrote:
> I can't get my onboard sound to work. It is Via Technologies VT82C686
> [Apollo Super. I tried uncommenting the Via82XXX module in rc.d
> modules and after reboot my mouse no longer worked. I have tried to
> configure alsamixer. It makes funny noises. It works on an off. It has
> intermittent squeals. It mostly sounds like static. I have tried every
> combination I can find when googling or can research in the books I
> have.
>
> Please help.
>
> Rory Jakes
> roryjakes@yahoo.com

first of all, anything via sucks... you poor thing...

second, what kind of chipset/motherboard do you have?

i'm running a via/amd board and i had to tweak lots of stuff as well.

On 5 Nov 2003 16:47:07 -0800, Rory Jakes <roryjakes@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I can't get my onboard sound to work. It is Via Technologies VT82C686
> [Apollo Super. I tried uncommenting the Via82XXX module in rc.d
> modules and after reboot my mouse no longer worked. I have tried to
> configure alsamixer. It makes funny noises. It works on an off. It has
> intermittent squeals. It mostly sounds like static. I have tried every
> combination I can find when googling or can research in the books I
> have.
>
> Please help.
>
> Rory Jakes
> roryjakes@yahoo.com

Heya Rory,
As I recall, when I was using that particular chipset, I also had to make
sure I invoked the ac97_codec
/sbin/modprobe ac97_codec
and everything was hunky-dory after that, nice clean sound.


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Rory Jakes wrote:
> I can't get my onboard sound to work. It is Via Technologies VT82C686
> [Apollo Super. I tried uncommenting the Via82XXX module in rc.d
> modules and after reboot my mouse no longer worked. I have tried to
> configure alsamixer. It makes funny noises. It works on an off. It has
> intermittent squeals. It mostly sounds like static. I have tried every
> combination I can find when googling or can research in the books I
> have.

I got it working perfectly on 2.4.21 and 22 compiling the sound into the
kernel, not as modules.

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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears it is true. [J. Robert Oppenheimer]

Sensei <noone@nowhere.org> wrote in message news:<Wnoqb.100404$e5.3676434@news1.tin.it>...
> Rory Jakes wrote:
> > I can't get my onboard sound to work. It is Via Technologies VT82C686
> > [Apollo Super. I tried uncommenting the Via82XXX module in rc.d
> > modules and after reboot my mouse no longer worked. I have tried to
> > configure alsamixer. It makes funny noises. It works on an off. It has
> > intermittent squeals. It mostly sounds like static. I have tried every
> > combination I can find when googling or can research in the books I
> > have.
>
> I got it working perfectly on 2.4.21 and 22 compiling the sound into the
> kernel, not as modules.

How do you compile the sound into the kernael?