No sound, First install, VIA VT8233 motherboard

Pizbit pizbit at gmail.com
Thu Oct 28 03:50:42 UTC 2004


I have via8233A and my sound refused to work properly until I added
pci=noacpi onto the boot prompt, it's worth a try. :)

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:11:29 -0700 (PDT),
gctaylor2004-ubuntu at yahoo.com <gctaylor2004-ubuntu at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just loaded warthog for the first time on a VIA
> VT8233 based motherboard.  I cannot get sound to work.
>  The CD player plays and looks like it's playing but
> no sound output.  I believe the sound card is good
> because the BIOS beeps through the sound card when I
> boot.
> 
> uname -a
> Linux speedy16 2.6.8.1-3-386 #1 Tue Oct 12 12:41:57
> BST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> I see Bug 1254 "other devices (sound, wireless?) fail
> to work when lp/parport modules are loaded due to IRQ
> conflict"
> 
> but I get errors when I try to unload the parallel
> module.
> 
> sudo modprobe -r parport_pc
> FATAL: Module parport_pc is in use.
> 
> I would go into /etc/modules.conf and remark out
> parport_pc but the text in that file says not to edit
> the file directly, but to use update-modules.
> Reading the manpage for that utility says that it is
> obsolete and does nothing.
> I tried booting with acpi_irq_isa=7 and that doesn't
> help.
> 
> Here's
> sudo lsmod |grep via
> 
> via_rhine              19848  0
> mii                     4864  1 via_rhine
> crc32                   4608  1 via_rhine
> snd_via82xx            26660  3
> snd_ac97_codec         59268  1 snd_via82xx
> snd_pcm                85540  2
> snd_via82xx,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_page_alloc         11144  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
> snd_mpu401_uart         7296  1 snd_via82xx
> snd                    50660  11
> snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
> via_ircc               20368  0
> irda                  167360  1 via_ircc
> via_agp                 8832  1
> agpgart                31784  1 via_agp
> gameport                4736  2 snd_via82xx,analog
> via82cxxx              13084  1
> ide_core              125272  4
> ide_cd,ide_generic,via82cxxx,ide_disk
> 
> I'm not sure what to do, I'm kind of flailing.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gary
> 
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