strange sound question

[dep]

begin  Klaus-Peter Schrage's  quote:

| 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.

right. what i was interested in doing was setting the volume on the 
thing, in that alsamixer cannot find it. and the codec is not listed 
on the matrix at all.

| But perhaps you should really browse the archive of the alsa-user
| list; I remember that there have been issues with snd-via82xx ...

yup. have done that; one of the messages even contained a link to the 
section of alsa-project.org that supposedly deals with the via82xx. 
problem is, i haven't been able to get through to alsa-project.org 
for several hours now.

and i have no certainty at all that i've hacked modules.conf correctly 
-- it's kind of a bear sometimes.
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