Hi, your comments helped me to get sound working on my laptop and on my desktop. On the desktop everything works fine, but I disabled it on my lapto, because the sound is a bit messed up and more importantly since I have sound my machine crashs from time to time. I believe this problem is pretty hard to fix as the machine really crashs: no caps lock light anymore, no logs etc ... So I'll stop here as sounds is not _that_ important.
I still have no /dev/sonypi, but the module is loaded probably. But that is not a real problem as Thanx for your help! I learned a lot ;-) Cheers, Mariano On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 21:03, Thomas Girard wrote: > > > Mariano Kamp wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 18:08, Thomas Girard wrote: > > > > > >>Add i810_audio to /etc/modules. You may also use the sonypi modules > >>which will allow you to use the jogdial (apt-get install sjog). > > > > That is interesting. How do I know that the jogdial is working? Do I > > need to change something in XConfig? > > > * modprobe sonypi. Check that /dev/sonypi exists. If not, check > /var/log/messages. A modinfo sonypi could help you too. > * In a xsession, run sjog. If you get a permission denied error, try > running sjog as root, just to see if it works. Using this program, you > can change sound volume, change brightness, and many other things since > it is fully customizable. > * You'll probably need to change the permissions on /dev/sonypi or > change group of this device. If you happen to use devfsd, then I can't > help you anymore, because I'm using it and I haven't read devfsd.conf > manpage yet. So I can't really use sjog when not root ;-). > * The next step would be to prepend somewhere, e.g. in your .xsession or > your .xinitrc: sjog & before running any window manager. > > Cheers, > > Mariano > > > > > >>> * but when loaded by hand > >>> * xmms does work and outputs that it used OSS > >>> * kde sound does not work (when logging in it complains about > >>> /dev/dsp permision denied) > >> > >>Add yourself to the audio group, or whatever group the /dev/dsp device > >>belongs to. > >>When modprobing i810_audio, if you did compile as modules OSS soud > >>modules, your lsmod should read : > >>i810_audio > >>soundcore > >>ac97_codec > >> > >>Hope this helps. Note that my lsmod also reads i810_rng, since I > >>compiled as a module the pseudo random number generator. I'm not sure > >>it's related, but that's worth trying. Anyway, since you're using a > >>vaio, you should use the sonypi driver (located in character devices). > >>Being able to use the jogdial is great, and I think it also gives access > >>to other sony specific features. > >> > >>> * gnome is quiet too > >>> > >>> What should I do next? > >>> > >>> What about alsa? I read that alsa is now the way to go, but oss. I > >>>didn't find a alsa howto nor a package below /usr/doc. Where should I > >>>look? > >>> > >>>Cheers, > >>>Mariano > >>> > >>>On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 13:50, Thomas Girard wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>I had exactly the same problem, on the same machine. > >>>>First of all, you should try OSS module i810_audio. If you card remains > >>>>mute, or produces strange sounds as it did for me, you'll have to follow > >>>>these steps: > >>>>Update ACPI on your kernel. The reason why the sound card was not > >>>>correctly working before is related to a IRQ sharing issue solved > >>>>recently in the ACPI subsystem. > >>>>the sound works perfectly with the OSS driver Intel ICH (i8xx) module > >>>>named i810_audio. So you have to: > >>>>1. Patch your kernel with the latest version of ACPI, available from > >>>>http://acpi.sourceforge.net > >>>>2. Compile a new kernel with ACPI enabled (I include it in the kernel, > >>>>not as a module), and choose in the sound config: > >>>><M> Sound card support > >>>>... > >>>><M> Intel ICH (i8xx) > >>>>... > >>>><M> OSS Sound modules > >>>>3. Use the new kernel. > >>>> > >>>>I can provide my .config, if it helps, > >>>> > >>>>Thomas > >>>> > >>>>Mariano Kamp wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>Hi, > >>>>> > >>>>> lspci -vv gives the following output: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. AC'97 Audio Controller > >>>>>(rev 02) > >>>>> Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80fa > >>>>> Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- > >>>>>ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- > >>>>> Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- > >>>>><TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- > >>>>> Latency: 0 > >>>>> Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 9 > >>>>> Region 0: I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256] > >>>>> Region 1: I/O ports at 18c0 [size=64] > >>>>> > >>>>> I don't find a Kernel Module with a similar name?! What do I need to > >>>>>look for? Would the discovery of the right module be everything needed > >>>>>to get the sound up and running on woody or do I need anything else? > >>>>> > >>>>> Just in case that is interesting?!hamlet:/home/mkamp# lsmod > >>>>>Module Size Used by Not tainted > >>>>>bsd_comp 3968 0 (autoclean) > >>>>>ppp_async 5984 1 (autoclean) > >>>>>ppp_generic 14088 3 (autoclean) [bsd_comp ppp_async] > >>>>>slhc 4352 0 (autoclean) [ppp_generic] > >>>>>eepro100 16976 1 > >>>>>ieee1394 25576 0 (unused) > >>>>>usb-uhci 20996 0 (unused) > >>>>>usbcore 52512 0 [usb-uhci] > >>>>>rtc 5368 0 (autoclean) > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>Mariano > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>>-- > >>>>Thomas Girard > >>>>51 rue Curiol > >>>>13001 Marseille > >>>> > >>>>mailto:thomas.g.girard@;free.fr > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>-- > >>>>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? 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