Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4165 mails)

[Tony Price <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 18:31, Brad Shelton wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 06:08:32PM +0100, Tony Price wrote:
> > More news about my missing sound capabilities. 
> > 
> > In /var/log/messages I'm getting
> > 
> > Apr 15 17:02:40 huckleberry kernel: ALSA via82xx.c:699: invalid
> > via82xx_cur_ptr, using last valid pointer
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me what this means?
> 
> I would guess, based on information I see in the error that I am not
> absolutely certain about, that you are using AMD with a VIA chip set which
> is not well, or at all, supported by the default kernels. Did your install
> auto-detect Athlon and install the correct kernel? 

Well, I think it's OK. The response I get from uname -a is 

Linux huckleberry 2.4.20-4GB-athlon #1 Mon Mar 17 17:56:47 UTC 2003 i686
unknown unknown GNU/Linux

The driver for VT8233 seems to be present as
/lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB-athlon/kernel/drivers/sound/via82cxxxaudio.o

but it still isn't producing any sound. 

What makes this more frustrating is that it worked OK under 8.1, and the
newer kernel in 8.2 seems to have improved it worse.


> 
> I ended up getting the Mantel built k_athlon kernel to get my VIA chip set to
> work correctly.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> 
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Tony Price

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