Via High Definition Audio Controller

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 00:16 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 March 2008 23:55, Jim wrote:
> > FC8-i386  KDE  2.6.24.3-34.fc8
> > My Sound card in a laptop is a VIA Tech, "VIA High Definition Audio
> > Controller" and all the drivers are loading but it has no sound.
> > I have heard through the Grapvine that the PCM device VT1708 was broken
> > in 2.6.24, any truth to that ?
> > The Soundcard Detection debug files are listed below,   scsrun.log and
> > scsconfig.log.
> > Who can read and understand these two files.
> >
> >
> >                                                         scsrun.log
> >
> >
> > ------- System Config Soundcard Log --------
> > Wed Mar 19 17:27:52 EDT 2008
> >
> > aplay: main:546: audio open error: Device or resource busy
> > *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
> > amixer: Mixer attach default error: Connection refused
> > *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
> > amixer: Mixer attach default error: Connection refused
> > ProbeCards, method =  hal
> > --------- Card 0 --------
> > Active 1
> > Vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> > Model: VIA High Definition Audio Controller
> > Driver: snd-hda-intel
> >
> > Volume: 75
> > Devices:
> > [[0, ' VT1708 Analog ']]
> > Test device 0
> 
> Hi Jim. As I'm totally obsessed by pulseaudio causing sound problems on F8, 
> I'd suggest removing the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio package, then see if the 
> sound works.
> 
> Just a shot in the dark, and maybe I've got pulseaudio on the brain, but other 
> folks have got their sounds up by removing that package.
> 
> Nigel.
> 
I second this sugestion.
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