[CentOS] Audio issue(s)

Tue Nov 10 05:40:28 UTC 2009
MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com>

I just bought a new (refurbished) Everexe StepNote laptop with a VIA
C7-M CPU and a VIA chipset, installed CentOS 5.4 on it and the audio
is not working.

I looked around for a sound driver for the VIA vt1708/a, which is what
it claims to have (see below), but that didn't work either.

Any pointers as to what I'm missing?

!lpspci

04:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC]
(VIA High Definition Audio Controller) (rev 10)

!lsmod | grep snd

snd_seq_dummy           7877  0
snd_seq_oss            32577  0
snd_seq_midi_event     11073  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                49585  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         11725  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            42817  0
snd_mixer_oss          19009  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                72133  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              24517  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         14281  1 snd_pcm
snd_hwdep              12869  0
snd                    55749  8
snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore              11553  1 snd

Thanks.

mhr