[Solved] Sound won't work [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller

[mcuddy]

My audio doesn't work

I configured it with http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml

# rc-config restart alsasound
Restarting init script
* WARNING: you are stopping a boot service.
* Storing ALSA Mixer Levels ... [ ok ]
* Killing processes using ALSA ... [ ok ]
* Unloading ALSA modules ... [ ok ]
* Loading ALSA modules ...
* Loading: snd-card-0 ... [ ok ]
* Loading: snd-pcm-oss ... [ ok ]
* Loading: snd-seq ... [ ok ]
* Restoring Mixer Levels ...

# lspci -v | grep -i audio
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)


enabled in Menuconfig:

<M> Sound card support
< > Open Sound System (DEPRECATED)
| | <M> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ¿ ¿
¿ ¿ <M> Sequencer support ¿ ¿
¿ ¿ < > Sequencer dummy client ¿ ¿
¿ ¿ <M> OSS Mixer API ¿ ¿
¿ ¿ <M> OSS PCM (digital audio) API ¿ ¿
¿ ¿ [*] OSS PCM (digital audio) API - Include plugin system ¿ ¿
¿ ¿ [ ] OSS Sequencer API ¿ ¿
¿ ¿ [ ] Dynamic device file minor numbers ¿ ¿
¿ ¿ [ ] Support old ALSA API ¿ ¿
¿ ¿ [ ] Verbose procfs contents ¿ ¿
¿ ¿ [ ] Verbose printk ¿ ¿
¿ ¿ [ ] Debug

<M> Intel/SiS/nVidia/AMD/ALi AC97 Controller
<M> VIA 82C686A/B, 8233/8235 AC97 Controller

alsaconf gives:

intel8x0 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev
legacy Probe Legasy ISA (non-PnP) chips

I selected intel8x0


Running update-modules...
Loading driver...
* Loading ALSA modules ...
* Loading: snd-card-0 ... [ ok ]
* Loading: snd-pcm-oss ... [ ok ]
* Loading: snd-seq ... [ ok ]
* Restoring Mixer Levels ... [ ok ]
Setting default volumes...

===============================================================================

Now ALSA is ready to use.
For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.

Have a lot of fun!


All local users are in group "audio"

troubleshooting:

# cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [SI7012 ]: ICH - SiS SI7012
SiS SI7012 with AD1888 at irq 23

# cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.15 (Tue Nov 20 19:16:42 2007 UTC).

# cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.15 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux SpeedyX.Cuddy.com 2.6.24-gentoo-r8n #3 PREEMPT Sat May 17 23:29:35 MDT 2008 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
SiS SI7012 with AD1888 at irq 23

Audio devices:
0: SiS SI7012 (DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers:
0: Analog Devices AD1888


dmesg shows:
AC'97 0 analog subsections not ready
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 56831 usecs
intel8x0: measured clock 105 rejected
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:02.7 disabled
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.7[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
AC'97 0 analog subsections not ready
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 50243 usecs
intel8x0: measured clock 119 rejected
intel8x0: clocking to 48000

Alsamixer shows:
┌───────────────────────────────────[AlsaMixer v1.0.16 (Press Escape to quit)]────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Card: SiS SI7012
│ Chip: Analog Devices AD1888
│ View: [Playback] Capture All
│ Item: Master [dB gain=-12.00, -12.00]

Master: 00 74<>74
Master M: 00 74
Master S: MM
Headphon: 00
PCM: 00 74<>74
Surround: MM
Surround: Shared
Center: MM
LFE: MM
Line: 00 71<>71
Line Jac: 00
CD: 00 71<>71
Mic: MM
Mic Boost: 00
Mic Select: Mic1
Phone: 00 71
IEC958: 00
IEC958 P: 67
IEC958 P: AC-Link
Aux: MM
Channel: 2ch
Downmix: off
Exhange: MM
External: MM
High Pass: 00
Spread F: MM
V_REFOUT: 00

[ewaller]

On my system, the headphone jack sense, line jack sense, and microphone jack sense all report MM, not 00. When I set the headphone jack sense to 00, the audio stops. Try setting it to 'MM'
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[mcuddy]

YAY!!!! Thank you!!! It worked.

[ewaller]

You are welcome.
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