Problems with VIA8233A soundcard under KDE

Tealc · n00b Joined: 13 May 2002 Posts: 15

Hello,

recently I did a fresh installation of Gentoo v1.4 (after I screwed my v1.2 system with the update-scripts

) and everything works fine.

One problem has been left that 's taking to much time for me now. It's that damn soundcard (VIA8233A) which I can't get to work unter KDE.

I followed everything in the desktop guide and the alsa sound matrix. THen I discovered a kernel lockup during boot which I got fixed with a workaround from this forum.

I can send a wav file to /dev/dsp and it makes some noise. But when I try to play a mp3 oder wav file under KDE I do hear nothing.
I checked KMix and raised up everything. When I start aRTs Control I see the sound levels but I can't hear anything.

I 'm going insane with this. If anyone knows a solution please post it here.

Best Regards,
Tealc

mlybarger · Guru Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 480

i have this onboard sound chip also, and recently setup a 1.4 box. i've had audio working, but it's not persistant between boots. i still have a little work to go.

as far as your issues, can you check to see if artsd isn't using a null sound device (thus why you would see the audio levels and no sound). there's an option some where to turn notification on/off, i'm not sure where. you can also create a test user (be sure to give audio privs), and login as that under kde.

you can also try a non-artsd desktop, maybe enlightenment. see if you can get audio from there.

Slurp53 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 255 Location: Iowa

I have the same motherboard. Motherboard is rock solid and runs great, but save yourself some pain and go to newegg.com and buy a $16 soundblaster card.

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Jonteponte · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2002 Posts: 33

Did you solve ths problem? I can only get sound using XMMS (I did a alsa-xmms emerge) but not in KDE generally. When I boot up KDE complains about "Permission denied" when using /dev/dsp, what permissions should I set?

Jonteponte · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2002 Posts: 33

New information:

Solved the problem with user not having permissions to /dev/dsp, but worst is left.

When the sound in kde is working xmms hangs on me, won't play. When I log on with a user not a member of the audio group then the sound in kde ofcourse won't work, but xmms works like a charm.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

/Jonas

edit: Mplayer and the built-in movie player can't initialize sound either

Jonteponte · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2002 Posts: 33

After all those problems I gave up... went out and bought myself a SB Live instead... works perfectly now!

grrrrr · n00b Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 38 Location: belgium

i had the same problem, found the solution in some other thread here

you have to use kcontrol to set the sampling rate to 48000
man that took me a while to find out :evil:

mope · Apprentice Joined: 23 Feb 2003 Posts: 206

Please let us know how you solved the issue. What steps did you take? What thread explained how to solve it? Thank you very much.

I'm over at this thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1406408&highlight=#1406408