Re: VT8237R Plus / no sound

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VT8237R Plus / no sound
\ Uwe Thiem (12 Nov 2007)
. \ David Sveningsson (12 Nov 2007)
. . \ Uwe Thiem (12 Nov 2007)
. \ Neil Walker (12 Nov 2007)

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Subject:	Re: VT8237R Plus / no sound
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Neil Walker
Date:	12 Nov 2007

Uwe Thiem wrote:
> Is it simply not supported yet, or does anybody know a trick?
>

I know from experience (having spent the last few months struggling with
a VIA-based laptop) that VIA chipsets are just not worth the pain. :(
However, the trick in your case may be to load the right driver. If it's
anything like my laptop, you need the hda-intel driver. This is the
lspci from my laptop:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge (rev 80)
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 I/O APIC Interrupt Controller
00:00.6 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Security Device
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 PCI to PCI Bridge
Controller
00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M900 PCI to PCI Bridge
Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port
Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev a0)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev a0)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev a0)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II]
(rev 7c)
00:13.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge
00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Chrome9 HC IGP
(rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG
802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
06:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio
Controller (rev 10)

Be lucky,

Neil

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