[ale] Trouble with a sound card on Ubuntu 6.10.

[Scott Castaline]

Jim wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>> I was never able to get sound or the printer working right on my wife's 
>> system with her old, tired system, so I gave her an ASUS, AMD box that 
>> I'd been running Debian on quite successfully.  I scrubbed a new disk 
>> and installed Ubuntu Edgy.  The sound doesn't work.  I went googling and 
>> found a suggested fix that included installing the via82cxxx_audio 
>> module.  I tried that and:
>>
>> root at sue-desktop:~# find /lib/modules/ -name via82cxxx_audio.ko | xargs 
>> ls -l
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29062 2006-12-05 17:47 
>> /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/sound/oss/via82cxxx_audio.ko
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29062 2007-02-01 15:11 
>> /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/kernel/sound/oss/via82cxxx_audio.ko
>> root at sue-desktop:~# modprobe via82cxxx_audio
>> FATAL: Module via82cxxx_audio not found.
>> root at sue-desktop:~# uname -r
>> 2.6.17-11-generic
>>
>> I'm very confused.  Lsmod doesn't mention it, so it's not already 
>> installed. It's not in the /etc/modprobe.d/arch/i386 file.
>>
>> So why doesn't modprobe (or insmod) find the module?
>>
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> OK I'm going to rant for a bit.
> 
> <rant>
> This motherboard is the biggest POS I've ever encountered.  Only once 
> have I ever gotten audio to work on it.  XP won't even play it and the 
> asus site is so broken you can't get to the drivers any longer.  To get 
> audio working I finally installed a soundblaster live board.
> 
> When I first got the board, I attempted to put my 30 Gb drive in it.  No 
> dice.  It never would recognize that it existed.  Ditto for a generic 
> CDROM drive.  I moved the 30 Gb to a different system and copied the 
> partitions to an 80 Gb  drive which the board liked. 
> 
> I decided to replace this system with a new one from Fry's and replace 
> my wife's system with this one.  I've fought for two days to get the 
> audio working, but before that, I was unable to get this MB (emphasis on 
> mudder, should be called MFB) to recognize the 8 Gb disk with my wife's 
> files.  Once Linux was booted, it was usable, however it would stop at 
> the bios step and say there was a primary slave failure every time. 
> 
> I'm gonna save my pennies up to buy her a new MB and I'm going to take 
> this into the woods with my 12 gauge! 
> 
> Yes, the bios is the most recent one  available.
> 
>  From lshw:
> 
>        description: Motherboard
>        product: A7V600
>        vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
>        physical id: 0
>        version: REV 1.xx
>        serial: xxxxxxxxxxx
> </rant>
> 
> Just in case anyone ever wants to give you one of these pieces of crap, 
> DONT take it.
> 
> Jim.
> 
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I guess the bullseye would be the MPU socket..........