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PostPosted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mihochan wrote:
Hi all,

I've got a GA-6OXT motherboard with a Sigmatel AC'97 sound card.
I've tried the Trident driver and the CODEC driver. Neither seem to work.
I'll try the CMPCI driver this evening.
Ha sanyone else dealt successfully with this card?


Is that the Gigabyte motherboard listed here?
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/products/6oxt.htm
I don't see any audio-outs on the pic. Do you have another board model?

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 2:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

>Is that the Gigabyte motherboard listed here?
>http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/products/6oxt.htm
>I don't see any audio-outs on the pic. Do you have another board model?


Hey, that must be my problem, nowhere to plug it in! ;)

No, actually, I wasn't entirely accurate. The motherboard is a GA-6OXT-A.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 27, 2002 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mihochan wrote:
>Is that the Gigabyte motherboard listed here?
>http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/products/6oxt.htm
>I don't see any audio-outs on the pic. Do you have another board model?


Hey, that must be my problem, nowhere to plug it in! ;)

No, actually, I wasn't entirely accurate. The motherboard is a GA-6OXT-A.


Tom


Ahhh, here we go!
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/products/6oxt_a.htm
Intel® 815EP AGPset
iTE I8712F super I/O and health chip
AC97 codec

Just by the looks of it, you should be able to use the snd-intel8x0 module, also.

Have you tried that one? Try it with nothing loaded sound-wise.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 28, 2002 3:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks,

I'll give that a go.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 29, 2002 8:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey,

For dodos like me, what does the 'snd-intel8x0 module'
look like?

I searched through menuconfig and the .config file itself and didn't
find anything that looked promising.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 8:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's located in the kernel drivers /sound dir.....once alsa has been emerged you should be able to modprobe the driver at the shell prompt >

#modprobe snd-intel8x0

run the amixer command and it should be telling you a whole lot of stuff is turned off if the driver is the right one for your chipset, if this is happy follow the rest of the install guide to add the drivers and config to default.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 1:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm pretty close to giving up. :evil:
I can't find the module that you're refering to.
The best I can do is the 'i810_audio'.
It actually seems to work, and by this I mean that a
/dev/dsp device is created and 'noatun' runs.
However, no sound comes forth and the mp3 play too fast
maybe 10 time too fast. Finally, noatun dies saying that the
cpu has overloaded.

I tried installing ALSA.
When I run amixer I get,
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory
even though ALSA starts without complaint.
However, when I stop ALSA I get
* ALSA driver is not loaded.

So, obviously something is stuffed but I don't know what.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 1:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

One last thing, the CD player works. I don't know if this is
really significant or not.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So do you actually get sound via the cdplayer???, what modules are listed for the intelchipset once alsa is installed ???
what error message do you get when you try to modprobe the snd_intel8x0??? also it would pay to check you havent added intel8x0 support in the kernel config ,as this could also be causing issues ....oh and double check the /usr/lib/modules/"kernelver"/kernel/sound/pci dir as thats were alsa dumps it's modules once compiled (sorry bout the earlier instructions i was confusing myself to :) ) ...dont give up yet ...it's definitly worth the wait .. :)
hope this helps..
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 12:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I found snd-intel8x0.o where you suggested but
modprobe snd-intel8x0 - gives
/lib/modules/2.4.19-pre10/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.19-pre10/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-pre10/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.19-pre10/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: insmod snd-intel8x0 failed

Here is part of my 'dmesg'

Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 260k freed
Adding Swap: 264088k swap-space (priority -1)
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.21, 00:43:52 Jul 1 2002
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH2 found at IO 0xe000 and 0xdc00, IRQ 17
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7609 (SigmaTel STAC9721/23)
i810_audio: only 48Khz playback available.
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 2
devfs_register(1): could not append to parent, err: -17
devfs_register(a1): could not append to parent, err: -17
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stop press!

After I restarted the machine, the sound card is now working.
There was a strange interim stage where 'aplay' worked but
not the SoundServer.

Anyway, what got it going was remove references to the i810_audio module in the modules.autoload file.

The strange thing now though is that the CD play no longer works. Oh well.


Thanks for your help Swishy and Arkane I owe you a beer the
next time your in Melbourne.

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey, might take you up on that when I take my vacation to melbourne/sydney lol

As far as why the cdplay not working, I'm not sure :?
I've never done that with my system (as odd as that might seem!)
What happens when it runs?
(god I really need to put a tag on this conversation, it got lost in the old ones)


mihochan wrote:
Stop press!

After I restarted the machine, the sound card is now working.
There was a strange interim stage where 'aplay' worked but
not the SoundServer.

Anyway, what got it going was remove references to the i810_audio module in the modules.autoload file.

The strange thing now though is that the CD play no longer works. Oh well.


Thanks for your help Swishy and Arkane I owe you a beer the
next time your in Melbourne.

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 9:05 pm    Post subject: Hmmm. Reply with quote

I have one of those on my Gigabyte mobo, and I get

Code:
Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/audio can't be opened (No such device or address)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.


when I try to start arts. I modularised all the sound drivers in the gentoo-sources, and the one which stuck was AC97, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Unless it needs loading before devfsd...

But the files appear to exist, they just aren't connected at the other end. :(
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 9:12 pm    Post subject: Re: Hmmm. Reply with quote

Did you try the snd-intel8x0 like mihochan did?
I think ac97 is a subsystem for another module, if I'm not mistaken.




mdpye wrote:
I have one of those on my Gigabyte mobo, and I get

Code:
Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/audio can't be opened (No such device or address)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.


when I try to start arts. I modularised all the sound drivers in the gentoo-sources, and the one which stuck was AC97, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Unless it needs loading before devfsd...

But the files appear to exist, they just aren't connected at the other end. :(
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 1:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm loathe to give any advice in this area but maybe my
experience could be of help.

From memory I got some functionality by playing around with
the sound drivers in the kernel configuration.
However nothing really worked until I removed them and relied
entirely on ALSA.

As it is now, the sound card is workig without any problems, even the
CD, with the sole caveat that the alsasound script in /et c/init.d/
doesn't function as expected. I can't stop and start ALSA like other services.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 9:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mihochan wrote:

As it is now, the sound card is workig without any problems, even the
CD, with the sole caveat that the alsasound script in /et c/init.d/
doesn't function as expected. I can't stop and start ALSA like other services.


Small price to pay. KDM doesn't behave quite right for me, I can start it on boot up, and I can stop it to work console only, but it won't start again after that.

I'll give it a shot, especially as ALSA is supposed to give the best quality anyway.
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