[mythtv-users] alsa help on mandrake 9.1 (OT?)

[Blaise St-Laurent]

Jason Cooper wrote:

>Isaac Richards (ijr at po.cwru.edu) wrote:
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>>On Friday 04 July 2003 11:53 pm, Blaise St-Laurent wrote:
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>>>Here's the deal:
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>>>I have a Giga-byte GA-7VRXP which has the ens1371 onboard, and i'm
>>>installing Mandrake 9.1. I've run Mandrake for a couple of years, and i
>>>have a couple of Mandrake 9.1 boxes installed and running. Here's the
>>>problem. I've never had to run ALSA before, and quite frankly, I'm
>>>stumped. I've hit a couple of different problems:
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>>Does the OSS driver not work with mythtv?
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>I'm running the same mobo.  alsa works fine here with the snd-via82xx
>driver.  yes, it's es1371, but alsa uses the above.  Unfortunately, I
>don't use Mandrake, so I'm unable to assist you there, but I can confirm
>that alsa works for that onboard sound chip.  
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Aha! Ok, i'll try the via82xx instead of the ens1371 drivers. Everything 
appeared to be correct, but nothing would actually output. I'll let you 
know what the results are asap.

>If you give me a week or two, I should have the SPDIF out working on it
>as well.  Depends on how long it takes to get here.
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Is there an SPDIF header you can buy for this board? i didn't realize, neet!