Re: 2.4.2[12] v VIA Rhine and VIA82x audio (working with a fight)

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

On Sad, 2003-09-20 at 17:38, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>   The motherboard has onboard via-rhine ether; this wouldn't work
> with the first kernels I tried.  With 2.4.22 it needs the 'noapic'
> option to work (2.4.22 wouldn't build for me single processor).
> The errors are timeouts on transmit; the same happens on 2.4.21

I've done some work on this for -ac. I thought 2.4.22 had enough stuff
to deal with it (at least for the non ACPI case). VIA v-bus cares that
both PCI_INTERRUPT_PIN and PCI_INTERRUPT_LINE are both set.

> 2) Audio
> 
> This was much more of a fight. The standard 2.4.21/22 via82xxx drivers
> were very problematic.  For example random hanging apps, buzzing when
> an app had sound open but wasn't actually sending stuff, and a complete
> failure to have any sound input.

Do you have VIA 8233 or 8235 hardware ?

> Except for playing CDs - which don't do anything - I suspect that might
> be hardware, but am not sure.

Check there is an analog cable fitted on the CD->Sound. Many new WinXP
boxes are shipped with XP configured to digitally rip the CD data and no
audio link cable. If so you need to pick a different CD player app or
fit the cable.