Hi,

	Motherboard manufacturers are always changing the codec embedded
with 686A/B, so the driver must support them. Mine is a Avance Logic (now
own by Realtek) ALC100/P, and it's not supported by Netbsd's driver. It's
recognized as ALC38 and the audio rate does not work correctly.
	Under linux, both the kernel and alsa do not support it, only
Opensound.com's OSS drivers (payware). As the machine is a SMP one and the
OSS driver seems not to like smp machines, it was impossible for me to use
the integrated sound. Both in NetBSD and Linux.
	ECS and Realtek had released a binary driver for specific kernel
versions (RedHat's messed kernel), and they're not willing to release
source code. I emailed their support and their support not even knew what
I was talking about. Also, the answers were written with very poor english
(unbelievable, but poorer than mine :). The chinese guys don't care even
about putting people with good english knowlegde to answer support issues.

	There's a datasheet with design information on my chip, but
unfoortunatelly I do not have the knowledge to workout a patch from it.

	[]s
	Ricardo.

 AOn 30 Sep 2002, MLH wrote:

> Date: 30 Sep 2002 22:22:04 GMT
> From: MLH <MLH@goathill.org>
> To: port-i386@NetBSD.ORG
> Newsgroups: netbsd.port.i386
> Subject: Re: VIA chipsets still suck.
>
> On 28 Sep 2002 02:05:00 -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
> > I have access to three machines with "similar" VIA chipsets on them.
> >
> >
> > So, I guess the big question is, am I the only person having about a 50%
> > failure rate with the auvia driver, and having problems of one sort or another
> > with every VIA-based USB controller I've ever seen?
>
> Epox 8kta3 (over 1.5 years old) and Epox 8K7a (over a year old):
>
> auvia0 at pci0 dev 7 function 5: VIA VT82C686A AC'97 Audio (rev 0x50)
> auvia0: interrupting at irq 9
> auvia0: ICE17 codec; headphone, 18 bit DAC, 18 bit ADC, Unknown 3D
> audio0 at auvia0: full duplex, mmap, independent
>