Re: via82cxxxx.c ?

[James Stevenson]

> James Stevenson wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > i have the following on motherboard card.
> >
> >  Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio
> > Controller (rev 48).
> >
> > there appears ot be a driver for it. But i am havign a few problems with
it
> > when the driver loads it says it picks the card up no problem
> > and stays loaded and has the ioports, irq in /proc/*
>
>
> sounds like an old kernel -- the driver doesn't support your chip at
> all.  I removed the pci id in later kernels so it wouldn't even load.

yeah i was wondering what was with the pci ids disappearing.
they were in 2.4.18-redhat-7.3 kernel and were there in the
driver download from the sourceforge site but not in 2.4.19

> It needs VT8233 support added to it (on my todo list), or you can use
> ALSA, which supports VT8233.

i would attempt to add support for it myself but i dont know where
to get the docs from for the chipset from.

    James