[Cialug] Soyo k7vme / VIA 8233 audio not working on Ubuntu 6.06

[Matthew Nuzum]

You should file bugs at launchpad.net... we're always looking for people
who can report the problem intelligibly and are competent enough to help
qa people diagnose problem.

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 19:56 -0600, Jim Asbille wrote:
> I had a similar problem with Ubuntu, Kubuntu, SimplyMepis and
> Linspire, no audio on VIA chipsets.  Same result as well, no one could
> help fix it.
> 
> Went back to Suse.
> 
> On 12/12/06, david l goodrich <dlg at dorkzilla.org> wrote:
>         
>         On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 02:50:59PM -0600, Josh More wrote:
>         > Start with http://linux.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=94639
>         
>         THe "Sound Problem Hoary Fix" link is broken, but I expect
>         it's 
>         along the same lines as the "Comprehensive Sound Problem
>         Solutions
>         Guide" I tried.  In any case, it wasn't a permissions problem,
>         and I don't see any "IEC" options in alsamixer.
>         
>         >
>         > If that fails, your laptop may be like mine, and the
>         solution is to
>         > blacklist
>         > the modem driver with /etc/hotplug/blacklist
>         >
>         > This will stop the modem driver from loading when it detects
>         the 
>         > sound card.  Thus, the kernel will load the sound driver
>         instead.
>         
>         This is a desktop, and there's no modem.  There's also no
>         modem
>         modules loaded, near as I can tell.
>         
>         dlg at pedro:~$ lspci | grep -i modem 
>         dlg at pedro:~$ lsmod | grep -i modem
>         dlg at pedro:~$
>         
>         Even if there were, there's no /etc/hotplug/ directory to put
>         a
>         blacklist file in.
>         
>         dlg at pedro:~$ cd /etc/hotplug
>         bash: cd: /etc/hotplug: No such file or directory 
>         dlg at pedro:~$
>         
>         Thanks.
>           --waldo
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > --
>         > -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP
>         >  morej at alliancetechnologies.net
>         >  515-245-7701
>         >
>         >
>         > >>> david l goodrich <dlg at dorkzilla.org> 12/12/06 2:45 PM
>         >>>
>         > I posted this over at the ubuntu forums, and was basically 
>         > ignored.  So much for many hands make light work :]  I'd
>         > appreciate any advice you all would have.
>         >
>         > I have a Soyo K7VME motherboard, which has VIA 8233 sound
>         > onboard.  It's not working.  The module is loaded,
>         nothing's 
>         > muted.  MP3 codecs are installed.  All the boring details
>         have
>         > already been posted to the ubuntu forums[1] but I'd love to
>         know
>         > if anyone has any other advice.
>         >
>         > Thanks.
>         >   --waldo 
>         >
>         > 1. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=317213
>         >
>         >
>         >
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