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From: Neil Walker <neil@×××××××.nu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VT8237R Plus / no sound
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:24:26
Message-Id: 4738DD8D.60907@ep.mine.nu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] VT8237R Plus / no sound by Uwe Thiem
1 Uwe Thiem wrote:
2 > Is it simply not supported yet, or does anybody know a trick?
3 >
4
5 I know from experience (having spent the last few months struggling with
6 a VIA-based laptop) that VIA chipsets are just not worth the pain. :(
7 However, the trick in your case may be to load the right driver. If it's
8 anything like my laptop, you need the hda-intel driver. This is the
9 lspci from my laptop:
10
11 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge (rev 80)
12 00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
13 00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
14 00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
15 00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
16 00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 I/O APIC Interrupt Controller
17 00:00.6 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Security Device
18 00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
19 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
20 00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 PCI to PCI Bridge
21 Controller
22 00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 PCI to PCI Bridge
23 Controller (rev 80)
24 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port
25 Controller (rev 80)
26 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
27 VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
28 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
29 Controller (rev a0)
30 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
31 Controller (rev a0)
32 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
33 Controller (rev a0)
34 00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
35 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
36 00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
37 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II]
38 (rev 7c)
39 00:13.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge
40 00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge
41 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Chrome9 HC IGP
42 (rev 01)
43 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG
44 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
45 06:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio
46 Controller (rev 10)
47
48 Be lucky,
49
50 Neil
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