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RigasW

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Posted: Aug. 11 2007,13:31

Hello,

I received my fanless silent via epia motherboard today. (The old one had a fan which was a little too loud ...)

But the new one is totally silent .... the sound does not work. (There is no way to configure the bios as "Soundblaster" as I could do with my old board ....)

The soundchip is a VT1708A

When I start DSL with the ALSA keyword, the card is detected when booting. I start XMMs, swich to alsa, but get the error message that my sound card is not configured properly.

In myDSL I found several alsa scripts:

I downloaded:

gnu-Utilis
Also
(Did not help ...)

In the meantime I found out, that according to via they do not support standard alsa sound driver ...

But on www.viaarena.com they list a lot of linux distros with drivers for this chip.
SO MY QUESTION: Is DSL a distro similar to slackware, debian, redhat, ubuntu ... or is it a distro of its own??

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Rigas

curaga

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Posted: Aug. 11 2007,16:39

of course DSL is it's own distro..

Try downloading the source and compiling yourself

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RigasW

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Posted: Aug. 11 2007,19:05

Ok,

I tried compiling. I installed gcc and started the installation, which includes compiling the drivers.

It produced a lot of output, with the following line, which seems like an error to me:

Makefile.conf ... no such file or directory.

Nevertheless, it created an alsa directory with a script "configure" in it.

I started that ... it ended with:

the file lib/modules/2.4.26/build/include/linux/version.h does not exist.
Please install the package with full kernel sources ...

So what do I have to install, before I compile the drivers ....?

Well, found it out myself: Package "Kernelsource" now the compilation seems to go through (it takes longer, produces more files, no error messages ...)

But this is obviously not the end .... it creates a lot of files and dirs .. but it does not install the driver. I have the impression, that it want me to compile the kernel from scratch ... for alsa.

Uffff ... any help is very wellcome ...

Thanx in advance

Rigas

curaga

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Posted: Aug. 11 2007,19:21

Oops, you need The Kernel Headers... Don't remember the name of the MyDSL ext, but the description says "use these when you need to compile drivers"

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