Onboard sound probs

al · Guru Joined: 26 Dec 2002 Posts: 304 Location: Scotland

I've got an onboard Sound chip which i cant get to work.

If i "modprobe snd-intel8x0" then the driver appears to load.If i do an "lsmod" then the module shows up as "Module snd-intel8x0 Size 23648 Used 0 by (unused).
If i then startkde,kde then complains that there is an error initializing the sound driver device /dev/dsp cant be opened.

If i throw a Soundblaster Live PCI card in my box then "modprobe emu10k1" then kde finds the sound card and initializes it.I can play mp3s or play UT2003 with sound fine.

Also i prefer to use Fluxbox as my window manager but if i want sound(with the Soundblaster) i have to load kde to initialize the sound server,then logout of kde,then log into Fluxbox before sound will work.
Is there any way to initialize sound logging straight into Fluxbox?

I tried to install alsa to see if it would help but it wont install(either with the snd-intel8x0, or the emu10k1)

What am i doing wrong?

pilla · Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 10:54 pm Post subject:

You have two different things there: sound drivers starting with snd- are from ALSA, the other are from OSS/Free (kernel drivers).

If you are using ALSA, you must load some modules in order to get /dev/dsp, /dev/mixer

This is from my /etc/modules.d/alsa

al · Guru Joined: 26 Dec 2002 Posts: 304 Location: Scotland

I don't have a file "alsa" in my etc/modules.d folder-presumably because i couldn't get alsa installed.
If i do "env ALSA_CARDS="snd- intel8x0" emerge alsa-driver" it starts the configure then bails out complaining "unknown soundcard snd-intel8x0, exiting"
If i do the same with the "emu10k1" it configures okay but goes belly up running make.

So what your saying is that i need alsa to run the "snd-intel8x0" driver but i can't get it installed.
Is there another OSS/Free (kernel drivers) i could use instead?
If so, whats the module name?

pilla · Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 11:45 pm Post subject:

The correct line is
env ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" emerge alsa-driver

But the kernel has also a i810 driver. It is "i810_audio"

al · Guru Joined: 26 Dec 2002 Posts: 304 Location: Scotland

Well,I tried to modprobe "i810_audio" but gentoo couldn't find the module so i'm guessing i haven't configured the kernel properly.
I also tried "env ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" emerge alsa-driver" but it wouldnt compile-something to do with "no such file or directorys"
Would it be because i'm using kernel 2.5.47 ?

I'll run a "make menuconfig" at the weekend when i've more time and see if i can load the correct module.
In the mean time thanks for your help Bloody Bastard (nice name!)

pilla · Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 8:33 pm Post subject:

Maybe it is because of your kernel version.

And to get the i810_audio kernel driver, you need to enable its option in the kernel configuration menu, compile a new kernel and boot with it.
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al · Guru Joined: 26 Dec 2002 Posts: 304 Location: Scotland

Right i re-compiled my Kernel.
When i modprobe i810_audio the module now loads and also loads ac97_codec [i810_audio] so sound should be working fine but for some reason KDE cant find the sound server!

How do i fix this?

Also is there a config file somewhere that i can add modprobe i810_audio to,so that it will load automatically when Gentoo boots up?