Hi there, I'm trying to repurpose an unused machine (athlon XP 3000+) for my young daughter to use. It's on a motherboard with a VIA KT880 chipset and VIA integrated soundcard (VIA 8237). The card seems to be detected during boot time and shows up in the system log, but when I try to actually use the sound card within Gnome, there's no sound. The device is detected, but there's no sound. So I figured this may be an "oddball" chipset, so I disabled the onboard sound device and installed a vanilla Soundblaster Live! card. Again, the card seems to be detected by the kernel at boot time, but there's no sound and the soundcard detection utility reports "no sound card detected." Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated since my daughter is now camped at my expensive laptop so she can play tux racer (a great game for kids, BTW). :-) Cheers,
Chris Mauritz wrote:> Hi there, > > I'm trying to repurpose an unused machine (athlon XP 3000+) for my > young daughter to use. It's on a motherboard with a VIA KT880 chipset > and VIA integrated soundcard (VIA 8237). The card seems to be > detected during boot time and shows up in the system log, but when I > try to actually use the sound card within Gnome, there's no sound. > The device is detected, but there's no sound. > > So I figured this may be an "oddball" chipset, so I disabled the > onboard sound device and installed a vanilla Soundblaster Live! card. > Again, the card seems to be detected by the kernel at boot time, but > there's no sound and the soundcard detection utility reports "no sound > card detected." Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated since my > daughter is now camped at my expensive laptop so she can play tux > racer (a great game for kids, BTW). :-) >Hate to follow-up my own posting, but... Out of nowhere, kudzu informed me that it "found" the VIA chipset when I tried using that again. And now, audio magically works. I didn't change anything other than removing the soundblaster card and turning the integrated sound back on in the motherboard bios. Very odd.... Cheers,
very strange i have exactly the same board and it works perfectly 2005/10/23, Chris Mauritz <chrism at imntv.com>:> Hi there, > > I'm trying to repurpose an unused machine (athlon XP 3000+) for my young > daughter to use. It's on a motherboard with a VIA KT880 chipset and VIA > integrated soundcard (VIA 8237). The card seems to be detected during > boot time and shows up in the system log, but when I try to actually use > the sound card within Gnome, there's no sound. The device is detected, > but there's no sound. > > So I figured this may be an "oddball" chipset, so I disabled the onboard > sound device and installed a vanilla Soundblaster Live! card. Again, > the card seems to be detected by the kernel at boot time, but there's no > sound and the soundcard detection utility reports "no sound card > detected." Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated since my > daughter is now camped at my expensive laptop so she can play tux racer > (a great game for kids, BTW). :-) > > Cheers, > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >