Re: Sound card problems

Rajko M. wrote:
John Bowling wrote:

Origional is on the motherboard (Asus KV8-MX) VT8233/A/823/8237 AC97
Audio Controller. Asus has a driver, but it is source code that gives
me kernel library sources not installed problems (in Yast2, the
kernel-lib sources are installed).

So I tried a Muse (Yamaha) and could not find a driver that would install.

Not I'm trying Sound Blaster SB Live! 5.1 Model SB0100 and still no
drivers. Why can't there be a basic sound blaster driver that works to
do simple sound with any versioin? I have no intention of using beyond
2 channels out and one in.

I even tried a a mVox MV100 usb speaker & mic with built in DSP & echo
suppression. It works fine with Skype on Windows, but Skype on Linux
won't talk to it. I assumed that this is because of the lack of a
working sound card.

John

Hi John,

What version of SUSE you are using?

The onboard card should work, as well as most of Sound Blaster. The VIA VT8233/A/823/8237 AC97 is supported. It worked for me an all SUSE
installations since SUSE 9.1.

Why you are trying to find driver from Asus? The VIA driver is opensource
and it can happen that SUSE has newer driver that doesn't need compilation.
Have you tried to use YaST Control Center -- Hardware -- Sound? The only thing that might be added is audio mixer to enable sound, but in
most of the versions YaST will do that for you.

Yes, several times. Yast sees the sound card and enables it, but I never get anything out of it, on any output ports. That probably means a hardware failure. I've only had SUSE 10.0 and 10.1 installed on this mb, so I can't verify that the hardware is good. And I don't feel like ripping the system apart to just get sound.

On the plug in card, there are several sound blaster Linux drivers, but not for this specific model, and those that I tried said they could not be found and that it may be an IRQ or similar problem. Creative has never done a Linux driver for this board. Guess I may try all the drivers on an small off chance one may function. Or will Yast tell me that the id string from the board and the id string on the driver don't match so it won't even try to use it?

I'm willing to get another sound card, if I can be sure I can get a driver for it. Considering that most vendors don't identify the card very well, and I can't go into a store and open every one to find a chip that matches a list of drivers.
.

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