VIA Soundcard Driver - skipping, failing

From: Matt Elder (HappyMutant_at_sc.rr.com)
Date: 08/12/03

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    Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:12:20 -0400
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    Problem:

    I am having trouble setting up my VIA soundcard. Whenever I attempt to
    play a sound file, I either get massive skipping, skipping at the end of
    the file, or no sound at all. I think this has something to do with the
    sound card's buffer - perhaps it's not getting flushed properly, but
    that's just a guess.

    I have tried using both the VIA82cxxx sound module that comes with the
    Linux kernel, and the ALSA snd-via82xx driver. This is my story.

    With the kernel-native driver, I get no sound whatsoever. Even if I
    execeute 'cat /bin/bash > /dev/dsp', I get no sound. From reading
    around online, my understanding is that this sound driver doesn't work
    well with my chipset, so I haven't messed with it much.

    With the ALSA driver, I had somewhat better success.
    Using XMMS (with the OSS plugin), I can skip between songs without
    trouble, but if a song reaches its end, it skips on the last bit,
    playing repeatedly and hanging XMMS until it decides to quit (about six
    or seven repeats, usually). If I use the ALSA plugin, XMMS hangs at the
    end of a song or at any attempt to change songs. Using mpg321, every
    buffer-full of any song skips. When playing short sounds from any other
    user program (gaim, koules, etc...), The whole sound will skip

    Anyone have any ideas about how I can deal with this?

    Thanks,
    - Matt Elder

    Configuration:
    I have an onboard VIA 8233 AC97 soundcard. I'm running the testing
    version of Debian, on top of a manually compiled kernel-2.4.21.

    With Alsa:

    /etc/modules:
    usb-uhci
    input
    keybdev
    mousedev
    joydev
    parport
    parport_pc
    hid
    soundcore
    snd-via82xx
    nvidia
    bcm4400

    Relevant part of /etc/modules.conf:
    ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/alsa
    ### DEBCONF MAGIC
    # This file was automatically generated by alsa-base's debconf stuff

    # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
    # --- ALSACONF verion 0.9.0 ---
    alias char-major-116 snd
    alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
    alias char-major-14 soundcore
    alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
    alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
    alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
    alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
    alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
    alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
    options snd major=116 cards_limit=1
    options snd-via82xx index=0
    # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

    ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/alsa 

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