[ale] Trouble with a sound card on Ubuntu 6.10.

[Jim]

Jim wrote:
> I was never able to get sound or the printer working right on my wife's 
> system with her old, tired system, so I gave her an ASUS, AMD box that 
> I'd been running Debian on quite successfully.  I scrubbed a new disk 
> and installed Ubuntu Edgy.  The sound doesn't work.  I went googling and 
> found a suggested fix that included installing the via82cxxx_audio 
> module.  I tried that and:
>
> root at sue-desktop:~# find /lib/modules/ -name via82cxxx_audio.ko | xargs 
> ls -l
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29062 2006-12-05 17:47 
> /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/sound/oss/via82cxxx_audio.ko
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29062 2007-02-01 15:11 
> /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/kernel/sound/oss/via82cxxx_audio.ko
> root at sue-desktop:~# modprobe via82cxxx_audio
> FATAL: Module via82cxxx_audio not found.
> root at sue-desktop:~# uname -r
> 2.6.17-11-generic
>
> I'm very confused.  Lsmod doesn't mention it, so it's not already 
> installed. It's not in the /etc/modprobe.d/arch/i386 file.
>
> So why doesn't modprobe (or insmod) find the module?
>
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OK I'm going to rant for a bit.

<rant>
This motherboard is the biggest POS I've ever encountered.  Only once 
have I ever gotten audio to work on it.  XP won't even play it and the 
asus site is so broken you can't get to the drivers any longer.  To get 
audio working I finally installed a soundblaster live board.

When I first got the board, I attempted to put my 30 Gb drive in it.  No 
dice.  It never would recognize that it existed.  Ditto for a generic 
CDROM drive.  I moved the 30 Gb to a different system and copied the 
partitions to an 80 Gb  drive which the board liked. 

I decided to replace this system with a new one from Fry's and replace 
my wife's system with this one.  I've fought for two days to get the 
audio working, but before that, I was unable to get this MB (emphasis on 
mudder, should be called MFB) to recognize the 8 Gb disk with my wife's 
files.  Once Linux was booted, it was usable, however it would stop at 
the bios step and say there was a primary slave failure every time. 

I'm gonna save my pennies up to buy her a new MB and I'm going to take 
this into the woods with my 12 gauge! 

Yes, the bios is the most recent one  available.

 From lshw:

       description: Motherboard
       product: A7V600
       vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
       physical id: 0
       version: REV 1.xx
       serial: xxxxxxxxxxx
</rant>

Just in case anyone ever wants to give you one of these pieces of crap, 
DONT take it.

Jim.