Asus A8V Deluxe Mic Inputs with SuSe 9.2

McBob · 02-27-2005, 09:47 AM

I've been having some software and hardware issues with my new AMD64 system. I have an A64 3500+ with an Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard, and I'm running SuSe 9.2 with KDE. The software issues are now solved for the most part, but I still haven't been able to get the mic inputs on my motherboard to work properly. I've tried all the mixing utilities, raising the mic level to max, etc., but I get on signal in the KDE sound recorder (or a Java app that's quite important for what this computer will be used for).

I read the posting faq, so here's the output of /sbin/lspci

Quote:

linux:/home/researcher/Documents # /sbin/lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0282
0000:00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 1282
0000:00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 2282
0000:00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3282
0000:00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 4282
0000:00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 7282
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800 South]
0000:00:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 13)
0000:00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [K8T800 South]
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]

Any help getting the mic inputs to work would be very much appreciated. I would rather not install another sound card, but I'd be willing to do that as a last resort (probably something cheap). As an aside, what are the "unknown" devices in that list? Have I not configured something I should have? I've only been using SuSe for about two days, and I'm very eager to learn more about it. I haven't changed any hardware configurations manually, everything is as it was after installation.

McBob · 02-27-2005, 07:23 PM

It's probably worth mentioning that I've been listening to some audio CDs with KsCD, and they tend to skip quite a bit from time to time. I would quite like to know what the unknown devices in that list are, too.

coredump25 · 03-08-2005, 08:43 AM

I have the same motherboard wth an AMD 64 3800+ on suse 9.2 and have no problems with the mic.
Are you sure the mic is not turned off?

chptma · 03-10-2005, 02:05 PM

I wonder if you can send us the lsmod to know the right modules to load...

Thanks.

coredump25 · 03-16-2005, 11:23 AM

Yast setup my sound card automatically. Here are
the modules that I have loaded:

Module Size Used by
snd_pcm_oss 63912 0
snd_mixer_oss 21120 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_ioctl32 18432 0
ipv6 264096 17
snd_via82xx 30180 2
snd_ac97_codec 81952 1 snd_via82xx
snd_pcm 110220 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_ioctl32,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 26632 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11664 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
gameport 4992 1 snd_via82xx
snd_mpu401_uart 8576 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 27812 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 10128 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 67336 12 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ioctl32,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,s nd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 10912 2 snd