Kent West wrote: > Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > > Kent West wrote: > > > > > >> I just got blessed with a Gateway E-3400 933MHz PIII box; sweet machine. > >> I've recompiled a new 2.4.2 kernel and everything's working well except > >> for sound and vmware (I'll worry about vmware later). > >> > >> The only info I've found so far on the sound, which is integrated, is > >> that it is "Sound Max Digital Audio"; Gateway's web site mentions that > >> it's SB compatible, but that kernel module didn't work (perhaps IRQ, etc > >> problem). Here's the results of "lspci": > >> > >> westek:~# lspci > >> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 1130 (rev 02) > >> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 1131 (rev 02) > >> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82820 820 (Camino 2) Chipset PCI > >> (rev 02) > >> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82820 820 (Camino 2) Chipset ISA > >> Bridge (ICH2) (rev 02) > >> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82820 820 (Camino 2) Chipset > >> IDE U100 (rev 02) > >> 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82820 820 (Camino 2) Chipset > >> USB (Hub A) (rev 02) > >> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82820 820 (Camino 2) Chipset SMBus (rev > >> 02) > >> 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device > >> 2445 (rev 02) > >> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF > >> 02:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] > >> (rev 78) > >> > >> Anyone have any idea what I need to do to get my sound working? Thanks! > >> > > > > Don't know if this will solve your problem, but looking in the alsa sources > > (alsa-source_0.5.10b-6_all.deb) there is a driver for "Intel ICH (i8x0) > > chipsets" and the 820 is mentioned, so try looking in the alsa pages > > (something > > like www.alsa.org, don't remember the correct address, try google or > > freshmeat) > > if your sound card is supported... > > > > > > Andrea > > Thanks for the response Andrea. > > Not being familiar with ALSA, and getting a response from Gateway that > the sound "card" is an "AC'97 soft audio using ADI 1881", I started > doing a dogpile search for these numbers, which lead me to the ALSA web > site (shouldda listened to Andrea in the first place). It said the 1881 > uses the ALSA Intel8x0 driver (again, just as Andrea pointed out), so > rather than playing with ALSA I just recompiled my 2.4.2 kernel with the > Intel810 driver. I played around with that a while, and never could get > any sound working, so gave up and returned to the ALSA site.
I think that was related to AGP/GART... > Having read the ALSA mini-HOWTO (which is getting somewhat outdated), I > downloaded the ALSA driver, libs, and utils and followed the > instructions to install all three of these things. Then I did a > "modprobe snd-card-intel8x0". lsmod now shows the following: > > snd-card-intel8x0 6992 0 (unused) > snd-pcm 49248 0 [snd-card-intel8x0] > snd-timer 9664 0 [snd-pcm] > snd-ac97-codec 18336 0 [snd-card-intel8x0] > snd 27696 1 [snd-card-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer > snd-ac97-codec] > vmnet 17632 1 > vmmon 18672 0 > 3c59x 22848 1 > appletalk 17680 0 > vfat 10576 0 (unused) > fat 30624 0 [vfat] > smbfs 33744 0 (unused) > > I then, as per the instructions, did a "amixer set PCM 100 unmute", > which returned: > > amixer: Unable to find simple control '',0: Success > > When I tried the similar "amixer set Master 100 unmute", I also got: > > amixer: Unable to find simple control '',0: Success > > [...] > > I also ran .snddevices as per the instructions, which presumably created > the /dev files needed (there is a /dev/snd directory now). > > When I try to "splay" some sound file (.wav or .mp3), I get: > > Cannot open /dev/dsp or /dev/sound/dsp! > splay: Failed to open sound device. > > When I run "saytime", I get no sound and no errors. > > When I try to cat (SomeSoundFile) > /dev/dsp, I get > > bash: /dev/dsp: No such device > > Same for /dev/audio. > > I am in the audio group. I've also tried all this as root. I'm not sure, but if you need to use the /dev/dsp (correct me if i'm wrong), you should add the OSS compatibility layer somewhere when requested by with alsaconf. > At one point I thought, "hey, maybe dselect has some ALSA stuff", so I > wound up installing alsaconf and a couple of other things. The alsa > modules there seemed old (what I downloaded and compiled was 0.9.0 > beta2, which might be my problem). So now I've got a mix of official > Debian packages and non-Debian self-compiled stuff. (Oh, did I mention I > don't really know what I'm doing?) > > When I run alsaconf, it looks like it's going to work, but the final > message is: > > Loading driver: > Starting ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.0beta2): no sound cards defined. > Setting the PCM volume to 100% and the Master output volume to 50% > amixer: Mixer attach hw:0 error: No such file or directory > Could not initialize the mixer, the card was probably > not detected correctly. > > and it removes most of the modules, so that lsmod returns: > > Module Size Used by > snd 27696 0 > vmnet 17632 1 > vmmon 18672 0 > 3c59x 22848 1 > appletalk 17680 0 > vfat 10576 0 (unused) > fat 30624 0 [vfat] > smbfs 33744 0 (unused) > > Sorry for the overload of info, but I wanted to be complete. > > Can anyone give me any help here? Thanks! You don't say if you added in the /etc/modutils the requested aliases for your sound card, mine where created quite correctly by alsaconf, but i remember well, in the sound card definition the name of my sound card was missing. I attach my alias file as example: # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # --- ALSACONF verion 0.4.3b --- alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via686a alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-1 snd-mpu401-uart options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660 snd_device_gid=29 snd_device_uid=0 options snd-card-via686a snd_index=0 snd_id=CARD_0 snd_mpu_port=0x300 snd_joystick=0x300 snd_pbk_frame_size=128 snd_cap_frame_size=128 # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- In the list of your loaded module, i haven't found a snd-mixer entry, try looking in your syslog for some error, and as a last tip, look in /proc/asound to check the card status... Hope this could help Andrea
