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gustafson
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 Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:17 pm Post subject: Solved: intel8x0 No sound. Downgrade alsa-utils |
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I was having a problem where I could get no sound out of my sound card. The card required the intel8x0 module. It appears that many have had similar problems with this module/card, and thought this might help.
I've tried it compiled into the kernel, as modules, and with alsa-driver. I've used alsaconf and tried editing the /etc/modules.d/alsa file directly.
There was no sound when executing cat /dev/urandom >/dev/dsp
The solution was to downgrade alsa-utils-1.0.11 > alsa-utils-1.0.10
The relevant info for my machine is below:
| Code: | $ uname -r
2.6.16-suspend2-r9
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| Code: | # lspci -v|grep -A8 aud
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0157
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 3
I/O ports at ee00 [size=256]
I/O ports at edc0 [size=64]
Memory at febffa00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at febff900 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 |
| Code: | $ dmesg |grep -i intel8
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 59555 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000 |
| Code: | $ lsmod
Module Size Used by
tun 8320 1
crc32 4096 1 tun
snd_seq 43216 0
snd_seq_device 6540 1 snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 41632 0
snd_mixer_oss 14464 1 snd_pcm_oss
parport 19264 0
wlan_scan_sta 11648 1
ath_pci 76068 0
ath_rate_sample 9984 1 ath_pci
wlan 157276 4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
ath_hal 187216 3 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
snd_intel8x0 26140 0
snd_ac97_codec 79776 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus 2048 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_bt87x 11208 0
snd_pcm 69508 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_bt87
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snd_timer 18692 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 41316 9 snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss
,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_bt87x,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 7816 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_bt87x,snd_pcm
cx8800 24844 0
cx88xx 54436 1 cx8800
i2c_algo_bit 7560 1 cx88xx
video_buf 15620 2 cx8800,cx88xx
ir_common 7940 1 cx88xx
tveeprom 12432 1 cx88xx
compat_ioctl32 1280 1 cx8800
v4l1_compat 11780 1 cx8800
v4l2_common 6656 1 cx8800
btcx_risc 3848 2 cx8800,cx88xx
videodev 6912 2 cx8800,cx88xx
nvidia 4546772 0
i2c_core 16000 4 cx88xx,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,nvidia |
| Code: | $ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [ICH5 ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH5
Intel ICH5 with AD1980 at 0xfebffa00, irq 17 |
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Headrush
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Joined: 06 Nov 2003
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Location: Bizarro World
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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Weird. The only two files provided by alsa-utils that would seen to have any issue on sound playing would be /etc/conf.d/alsasound and /etc/init.d/alsaound. Maybe something has changed between versions.
Maybe backup the the 1.0.10 versions and then install 1.0.11 and do a diff of those two files and see if you can see anything that changed. |
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Mallow005
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Joined: 15 Nov 2002
Posts: 49
Location: CA
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:29 am Post subject: |
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I was having a hell of a time with the in-kernel alsa driver for ice1724 (Chaintech v710). I was using alsa-driver previously, I did everything I could to make the in-kernel drivers work. I'm a 5-year veteran and I've done all kinds of alsa configurations. Turns out, after the update/uninstall of alsa-driver, I no longer had an /etc/asound.conf or asoundrc... I'm not sure which one I actually need.
After creating one, it still didn't work.
I saw your post and I didn't have the same symptoms (/dev/dsp still spat sound, OSS worked), but thought, what the hell. I downgraded alsa-utils to 1.0.10 and restarted /etc/init.d/alsasound... wow, all my old mixer settings were back and it was recognizing the card! I reinstalled alsa-utils-1.0.11 and it still worked. Sweet! I think my problem was the missing asound.conf or asoundrc, hope this helps someone else.
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