[linux-audio-dev] problem with via82cxx sound driver

[Can Ugur Ayfer]

Hi All,

I've been having some weird problem with my new mainboard which has an
onboard VIA ac97 sound card


When I set everything for OSS drivers, xmms plays mp3 files like
a stuck record player. I can move around the music file but it gets
stuck in the first second.

When I try the piece of code I have written to use OSS techniques,
my simple program which is supposed to play an instrument file with
half a second of music recorded, the card plays the sound repeating it 
indefinitely (until I abort the program).

The I switched to Alsa. When I use Alsa xmms plays fine but my piece of 
code (unchanged, still using OSS calls) repeats the sample 32 times in 2 
channels (stereo), 16 times in single channel (mono)

Linux is MDK 9.2. I tried the same things on a Dell notebook with 
exactly the same Mandrake 9.2 (installed from the same network NFS 
server) but ofcourse a different sound card, everything works fine.

Therefore it is certain that the problem is with the sound card driver.

 From dmesg output:
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Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac3
via82cxxx: Six channel audio available
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:11.5 to 64
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: VIA97 (Unknown)
via82cxxx: board #1 at 0xE400, IRQ 18
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 From lsmod output
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via82cxxx_audio        22112   0
ac97_codec             15828   0  [via82cxxx_audio]
uart401                 8356   0  [via82cxxx_audio]
8139too                17384   1
mii                     3864   0  [8139too]
sound                  71528   0  [via82cxxx_audio uart401]
soundcore               6340   0  [snd via82cxxx_audio sound]
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lspci output
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00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M266 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266]
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I shall appreciate any hints or help

best regards

Can Ugur Ayfer