Sound card help <newbie>

Hey Gang,

Can anyone help me determine why I am unable to get any ‘sounds’ out of my speakers when I load the RTP on my machine? The speakers and soundcard work OK in Windoze 98. I do not believe I have a sound driver running to start… (these are deva-*…right?)

‘sin’ shows no deva-* running, and whenever I try to start a driver from the command line, the prompt returns saying ‘Done’ I take this to mean that the driver has crashed for some reason.

I have an AMD Athlon 700 MHz machine with an ASUS K7-M motherboard. The sound card is on board, and is a ‘Via’ chipset/make/model, I believe. pci -v lists this for the soundcard:

Class = Multimedia (Audio)
Vendor ID = 1106h, VIA Technologies Inc
Device ID = 3058h, VT82C686 Audio Codec 97
PCI index = 0h
Class Codes = 040100h
Revision ID = 12h
Bus number = 0
Device number = 4
Function num = 5
Status Reg = 200h
Command Reg = 1h
Header type = 0h Single-function
BIST = 0h Build-in-self-test not supported
Latency Timer = 0h
Cache Line Size= 0h
IO Address = d800h length 256 enabled
IO Address = d400h length 4 enabled
Max Lat = 0ns
Min Gnt = 0ns
PCI Int Pin = INT C
Interrupt line = 10

Also, here is sin:

procnto 1 0 0 0 0 1393321
devc-con 2 36K 68K 128M 128M 225
pci-bios 4099 28K 64K 4K 516K 24
tinit 4100 8K 44K 4K 516K 4
devb-eide 4101 24K 12888K 36K 612K 2859
fs-pkg 4102 96K 188K 88K 1309K 533
slogger 16391 8K 80K 20K 536K 1
pipe 20488 12K 48K 24K 920K 92
devc-pty 102411 24K 128K 8K 524K 183
mqueue 102412 8K 52K 8K 524K 0
io-net 102414 36K 452K 48K 1225K 38957
devc-ser8250 114701 24K 48K 8K 524K 2
devc-par 114705 24K 636K 8K 648K 4
spooler 135188 12K 100K 8K 516K 73
devb-fdc 159754 20K 388K 28K 588K 6
dumper 188425 12K 52K 8K 524K 2
Photon 245778 64K 340K 8K 516K 3604
phfontFA 282646 284K 1221K 12K 516K 4211
fontsleuth 290835 16K 188K 8K 520K 9
io-graphics 323607 144K 308K 8K 516K 6757
devi-hirun 339993 52K 168K 20K 912K 1107
pwm 446480 116K 196K 8K 520K 440
shelf 491541 48K 548K 28K 780K 346
bkgdmgr 528410 96K 316K 8K 516K 482
wmswitch 528411 8K 1573K 12K 516K 103
saver 528412 16K 1557K 8K 516K 652
Xphoton 536607 964K 2566K 132K 516K 77
gtwm 536609 64K 740K 12K 516K 32
vmail 786447 816K 1169K 32K 664K 50331
voyager.server 786456 988K 712K 8K 516K 355
pkg-installer 815133 380K 856K 48K 776K 868
vserver 815134 1073K 572K 8K 516K 43
pterm 835616 40K 308K 8K 516K 356
sh 835618 136K 72K 8K 516K 3
sin 876579 76K 68K 8K 516K 15

I have also tried setting the PnP OS installed setting in the BIOS to ‘NO’ as suggested by some posts - but no joy. Can anyone suggest which driver might be best to use with this on board card? Better yet, can anyone volunteer a command line to try from the prompt? Thanks!
Bob

First, the sound card is not supported. The Alsa for QNX 0.2 has the driver
but from what I’ve seen it does not work. Secound, they seem to be avoiding
this question, as it has been asked before in this news group.
http://www.qnx.com/cgi-bin/search/usr/free/?srch=alsa&select=1

Bob Kraemer <bkraemeris@home.com> wrote in message
news:Voyager.001027193937.786447A@cr1007816-a…

Hey Gang,

Can anyone help me determine why I am unable to get any ‘sounds’ out of my
speakers when I load the RTP on my machine? The speakers and soundcard work

OK in Windoze 98. I do not believe I have a sound driver running to
start… (these are deva-*…right?)

‘sin’ shows no deva-* running, and whenever I try to start a driver from
the command line, the prompt returns saying ‘Done’ I take this to mean that

the driver has crashed for some reason.

I have an AMD Athlon 700 MHz machine with an ASUS K7-M motherboard. The
sound card is on board, and is a ‘Via’ chipset/make/model, I believe.

pci -v lists this for the soundcard:

Class = Multimedia (Audio)
Vendor ID = 1106h, VIA Technologies Inc
Device ID = 3058h, VT82C686 Audio Codec 97
PCI index = 0h
Class Codes = 040100h
Revision ID = 12h
Bus number = 0
Device number = 4
Function num = 5
Status Reg = 200h
Command Reg = 1h
Header type = 0h Single-function
BIST = 0h Build-in-self-test not supported
Latency Timer = 0h
Cache Line Size= 0h
IO Address = d800h length 256 enabled
IO Address = d400h length 4 enabled
Max Lat = 0ns
Min Gnt = 0ns
PCI Int Pin = INT C
Interrupt line = 10

Also, here is sin:

procnto 1 0 0 0 0
1393321
devc-con 2 36K 68K 128M 128M
225
pci-bios 4099 28K 64K 4K 516K
24
tinit 4100 8K 44K 4K 516K
4
devb-eide 4101 24K 12888K 36K 612K
2859
fs-pkg 4102 96K 188K 88K 1309K
533
slogger 16391 8K 80K 20K 536K
1
pipe 20488 12K 48K 24K 920K
92
devc-pty 102411 24K 128K 8K 524K
183
mqueue 102412 8K 52K 8K 524K
0
io-net 102414 36K 452K 48K 1225K
38957
devc-ser8250 114701 24K 48K 8K 524K
2
devc-par 114705 24K 636K 8K 648K
4
spooler 135188 12K 100K 8K 516K
73
devb-fdc 159754 20K 388K 28K 588K
6
dumper 188425 12K 52K 8K 524K
2
Photon 245778 64K 340K 8K 516K
3604
phfontFA 282646 284K 1221K 12K 516K
4211
fontsleuth 290835 16K 188K 8K 520K
9
io-graphics 323607 144K 308K 8K 516K
6757
devi-hirun 339993 52K 168K 20K 912K
1107
pwm 446480 116K 196K 8K 520K
440
shelf 491541 48K 548K 28K 780K
346
bkgdmgr 528410 96K 316K 8K 516K
482
wmswitch 528411 8K 1573K 12K 516K
103
saver 528412 16K 1557K 8K 516K
652
Xphoton 536607 964K 2566K 132K 516K
77
gtwm 536609 64K 740K 12K 516K
32
vmail 786447 816K 1169K 32K 664K
50331
voyager.server 786456 988K 712K 8K 516K
355
pkg-installer 815133 380K 856K 48K 776K
868
vserver 815134 1073K 572K 8K 516K
43
pterm 835616 40K 308K 8K 516K
356
sh 835618 136K 72K 8K 516K
3
sin 876579 76K 68K 8K 516K
15

I have also tried setting the PnP OS installed setting in the BIOS to ‘NO’
as suggested by some posts - but no joy. Can anyone suggest which driver

might be best to use with this on board card? Better yet, can anyone
volunteer a command line to try from the prompt? Thanks!

Bob

James Helman <jhelman1@home.com> wrote:

First, the sound card is not supported. The Alsa for QNX 0.2 has the driver
but from what I’ve seen it does not work. Secound, they seem to be avoiding
this question, as it has been asked before in this news group.

Exactly what `question’ do you think we are avoiding?

What is the meaning of life? :slight_smile:

pete@qnx.com wrote:

James Helman <> jhelman1@home.com> > wrote:
First, the sound card is not supported. The Alsa for QNX 0.2 has the driver
but from what I’ve seen it does not work. Secound, they seem to be avoiding
this question, as it has been asked before in this news group.

Exactly what `question’ do you think we are avoiding?

Anything about using VIA Supersouth sound in QNX. I have seen a few posts
about this and I have posted questions about it.

Is there any information on this sound chip? Do you know if anyone has
gotten it to work under QNX?

I like QNX it has one of the best GUIs I’ve ever used, but I also need
sound.

Sorry about the hostile attitude, but I figured that it would get a
responce.
<pete@qnx.com> wrote in message news:8tjuq0$qam$1@nntp.qnx.com

James Helman <> jhelman1@home.com> > wrote:
First, the sound card is not supported. The Alsa for QNX 0.2 has the
driver
but from what I’ve seen it does not work. Secound, they seem to be
avoiding
this question, as it has been asked before in this news group.

Exactly what `question’ do you think we are avoiding?

James Helman <jhelman1@home.com> wrote:

Anything about using VIA Supersouth sound in QNX. I have seen a few posts
about this and I have posted questions about it.

Is there any information on this sound chip? Do you know if anyone has
gotten it to work under QNX?

Hello James,

There is no driver for this card. The enumerator finds your sound card, but it
does not realize there is no driver… Check out the current QNX RTP h/w
support for Audio devices at http://qdn.qnx.com/support/hardware/platform/audio.html

Chris

I like QNX it has one of the best GUIs I’ve ever used, but I also need
sound.

Sorry about the hostile attitude, but I figured that it would get a
responce.
pete@qnx.com> > wrote in message news:8tjuq0$qam$> 1@nntp.qnx.com> …
James Helman <> jhelman1@home.com> > wrote:
First, the sound card is not supported. The Alsa for QNX 0.2 has the
driver
but from what I’ve seen it does not work. Secound, they seem to be
avoiding
this question, as it has been asked before in this news group.

Exactly what `question’ do you think we are avoiding?

Gardiner Family <kiwipop@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

What is the meaning of life? > :slight_smile:

forty two

pete@qnx.com > wrote:

James Helman <> jhelman1@home.com> > wrote:
First, the sound card is not supported. The Alsa for QNX 0.2 has the driver
but from what I’ve seen it does not work. Secound, they seem to be avoiding
this question, as it has been asked before in this news group.

Exactly what `question’ do you think we are avoiding?

James Helman <jhelman1@home.com> wrote:

Anything about using VIA Supersouth sound in QNX. I have seen a few posts
about this and I have posted questions about it.

Is there any information on this sound chip? Do you know if anyone has
gotten it to work under QNX?

I like QNX it has one of the best GUIs I’ve ever used, but I also need
sound.

Sorry about the hostile attitude, but I figured that it would get a
responce.

There is no support for that sound system in RTP. It is not listed as
a supported piece of hardware.

It does not matter how many sound cards are supported under any version of
ALSA under Linux… we support a specific set of sound cards as listed on
our supported hardware list.

Noone here at QNX has gotten that soundcard to work… we have not even
tried.

There may be information on that sound system available, but it is not
currently a priority with our audio group. Our audio groups current priority
is re-implementing the set of audio drivers currently listed as supported in
a consistent manner so that people writing applications that use sound can
expect reasonably close to the same behaviour from different types of sound
cards.

Until this is done, you will not see any additional sound cards supported
beyond what is already listed. Once this is done, you will see an audio
driver development kit made available so that anyone who has the inclination
can write an audio driver to support whatever chipset they are interested in.

Does this answer your questions?

The version of Alsa I was talking about is the QNX 0.2
port!http://www.qnx.com/cgi-bin/search/usr/free/?srch=alsa&select=1

Yes, that more than answers my question.
<pete@qnx.com> wrote in message news:8tmhlf$d9j$1@nntp.qnx.com

James Helman <> jhelman1@home.com> > wrote:
Anything about using VIA Supersouth sound in QNX. I have seen a few
posts
about this and I have posted questions about it.

Is there any information on this sound chip? Do you know if anyone has
gotten it to work under QNX?

I like QNX it has one of the best GUIs I’ve ever used, but I also need
sound.

Sorry about the hostile attitude, but I figured that it would get a
responce.

There is no support for that sound system in RTP. It is not listed as
a supported piece of hardware.

It does not matter how many sound cards are supported under any version of
ALSA under Linux… we support a specific set of sound cards as listed on
our supported hardware list.

Noone here at QNX has gotten that soundcard to work… we have not even
tried.

There may be information on that sound system available, but it is not
currently a priority with our audio group. Our audio groups current
priority
is re-implementing the set of audio drivers currently listed as supported
in
a consistent manner so that people writing applications that use sound can
expect reasonably close to the same behaviour from different types of
sound
cards.

Until this is done, you will not see any additional sound cards supported
beyond what is already listed. Once this is done, you will see an audio
driver development kit made available so that anyone who has the
inclination
can write an audio driver to support whatever chipset they are interested
in.

Does this answer your questions?
The version of Alsa I was talking about is the QNX 0.2

port!http://www.qnx.com/cgi-bin/search/usr/free/?srch=alsa&select=1(also the
0.5 version comes up with an unexpectid EOF, if anyone cares.)

Yes, that more than answers my question. Thank you kindly…

clear as mud!!
#milney
James Helman <jhelman1@home.com> wrote in message
news:8tnm01$ave$1@inn.qnx.com

The version of Alsa I was talking about is the QNX 0.2
port!> http://www.qnx.com/cgi-bin/search/usr/free/?srch=alsa&select=1

Yes, that more than answers my question.
pete@qnx.com> > wrote in message news:8tmhlf$d9j$> 1@nntp.qnx.com> …
James Helman <> jhelman1@home.com> > wrote:
Anything about using VIA Supersouth sound in QNX. I have seen a few
posts
about this and I have posted questions about it.

Is there any information on this sound chip? Do you know if anyone
has
gotten it to work under QNX?

I like QNX it has one of the best GUIs I’ve ever used, but I also need
sound.

Sorry about the hostile attitude, but I figured that it would get a
responce.

There is no support for that sound system in RTP. It is not listed as
a supported piece of hardware.

It does not matter how many sound cards are supported under any version
of
ALSA under Linux… we support a specific set of sound cards as listed
on
our supported hardware list.

Noone here at QNX has gotten that soundcard to work… we have not even
tried.

There may be information on that sound system available, but it is not
currently a priority with our audio group. Our audio groups current
priority
is re-implementing the set of audio drivers currently listed as
supported
in
a consistent manner so that people writing applications that use sound
can
expect reasonably close to the same behaviour from different types of
sound
cards.

Until this is done, you will not see any additional sound cards
supported
beyond what is already listed. Once this is done, you will see an audio
driver development kit made available so that anyone who has the
inclination
can write an audio driver to support whatever chipset they are
interested
in.

Does this answer your questions?
The version of Alsa I was talking about is the QNX 0.2
port!> http://www.qnx.com/cgi-bin/search/usr/free/?srch=alsa&select=1> (also
the
0.5 version comes up with an unexpectid EOF, if anyone cares.)

Yes, that more than answers my question. Thank you kindly…