[SOLVED] No sound LMDE VIA VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:35 pm
EDIT ... In short the problem was a "broken BIOS" and I had to install a sound card, but here is the whole thought process.
I bought this motherboard used and it does look good and clean, but then again somebody sold it for a reason and I bought it cheep so this may be an issue of faulty hardware.
This is the first time that I have tried to use sound from this motherboard.
I just installed this board yesterday and loaded LMDE this morning with all 600 and some odd updates from these Repos.
PulseAudio Volume Meter does show output during use of VLC and Totem but no sound from the speakers. The speakers tested good on an MP3 player.
Gnome Version is 2.30.2
/etc/asound.conf as seen here http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=58616
Many thanks in advance.
I bought this motherboard used and it does look good and clean, but then again somebody sold it for a reason and I bought it cheep so this may be an issue of faulty hardware.
This is the first time that I have tried to use sound from this motherboard.
I just installed this board yesterday and loaded LMDE this morning with all 600 and some odd updates from these Repos.
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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import backport
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports lenny-backports main
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some-desktop kittum # lsb_release -rd
Description: Linux Mint Debian Edition
Release: 1
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some-desktop kittum # uname -a
Linux some-desktop 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Tue Jun 1 04:59:47 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
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some-desktop kittum # hwinfo --sound
25: PCI 11.5: 0401 Multimedia audio controller
[Created at pci.318]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1106_3059
Unique ID: Ssy1.xwlagyv6iZ6
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.5
SysFS BusID: 0000:00:11.5
Hardware Class: sound
Model: "VIA VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller"
Vendor: pci 0x1106 "VIA Technologies, Inc."
Device: pci 0x3059 "VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller"
SubVendor: pci 0x1462 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd."
SubDevice: pci 0x0430
Revision: 0x60
Driver: "VIA 82xx Audio"
Driver Modules: "snd_via82xx"
I/O Ports: 0xeb00-0xebff (rw)
IRQ: 22 (8509 events)
Module Alias: "pci:v00001106d00003059sv00001462sd00000430bc04sc01i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: snd_via82xx is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_via82xx"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
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pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
type pulse
}
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some-desktop kittum # lspci | grep audio -vvnn
1:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
2:00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
3:00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
4:00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
5:00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
6:00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
7:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South]
8:00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
9:00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
10:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
11:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
12:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
13:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
14:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
15:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
17:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
18:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
19:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
20:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
21:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
22:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800/K8N800/K8N800A [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01)