strange sound question

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

dep wrote:
> this one is kinda weird.
> 
> due to a complex set of circumstances, i put together a machine today 
> that i intend to use. it's built on a gigabyte motherboard which has 
> a realtek alc650 sound chip. i downloaded, built, and installed the 
> alsa drivers for it, and by brute-force editing of /etc/modules.conf 
> i got it to load. driver name is snd-via82xx.o, and of courtse it is 
> recognized neither by suse's yast2 nor the alsa stuff shipped with 
> suse 7.3 -- yes, when 8.2 arrives next week, i'll install it, but in 
> my experience suse doesn't quite get it right until at least .2. 
> anyway. the problem -- i think -- has to do with the fact that as 
> initially installed the drivers have their volume set to 0. alsaconf 
> doesn't recognize the driver. neither does alsamixer.
> 
> somewhere there is a file that stores these things. anybody know what 
> it is, so i can go in and edit it?

I don't know what yast's job would be after you have manually compiled 
and installed the alsa-driver. The driver should work after proper 
adjustment of modules.conf according to the recommendations for your 
card, which are to be found in the "sound card matrix" on alsa-project.org.
An often forgotten step is running ./snddevices (from the alsa-driver 
source directory) which does what its name implies: create all the 
necessary devices in /dev.
But perhaps you should really browse the archive of the alsa-user list; 
I remember that there have been issues with snd-via82xx ...
Klaus