Multiple sound cards with ALSA : HOWTO

[russofris]

Multiple sound cards with ALSA : HOWTO

I'm a bit flabberghasted at the lack of alsa documentation on multiple sound cards. The totality of documentation on the topic amounts to dick. So here's my attempt at figuring out this whole mess. This is not an exhaustive guide, it is simply my interpretation of the available docs, implemented in such a way as to assist those of us who learn better by example.

While the focus of this doc will be on the setup of /etc/modules.d/alsa , I will try to cover the rest.

1: What sound card(s) do I have?

The simplest way to do this with PCI devices is to do the following

#lspci | grep -i audio

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h2so4 ~ # lspci -vv | grep -i audio 
0000:00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10) 
0000:00:0d.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02) 
0000:00:10.0 Multimedia audio controller: Aureal Semiconductor Vortex 2 (rev fe) 

Here we can see that I have 3 sound cards (Two and a TV card actually). I have a CMI 8738, a Aureal Vortex 2, and a WinTV card. I also have a USB webcam with microphone (it's an ov511)

2: 2.6 kernel configuration

I'm not going to tell you how to compile your kernel. I am going to tell you how to configure your sound. We're going to build everything as modules. I know some of you are going to want to go static, but I want you to trust me. Building as modules gives you more control over the loading order of the devices. This will be important later on. So:

(as root)

cd /usr/src/Linux
make menuconfig (or genkernel --menuconfig all )

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Device Drivers  --->
   Sound  --->
      <*> Sound card support
         Advanced Linux Sound Architecture  --->
            <M> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture 
            <M> Sequencer support                     
            < >   Sequencer dummy client             
            <M> OSS Mixer API                     
            <M> OSS PCM (digital audio) API 
            [*] OSS Sequencer API
               PCI devices  --->
                  <M> Aureal Vortex 2
                  <M> Bt87x Audio Capture
                  <M> C-Media 8738, 8338    
               ALSA USB devices  --->
                  <M> USB Audio/MIDI driver 

Under PCI devices, you should select the sound cards that you had. These were the three I had listed.

Exit, save, make, make modules_install, cp to /boot, grubify it (you gentoo users know the drill)

3: Loading the modules
I use cold/hotplug. It makes it so that things load easily and I don't have to do much when adding temporary hardware to my box. There is a problem with hotplug though. It's that you have little control over the order in which the modules are loaded. Why is this a problem? Let me explain a little.

I want the Vortex2 to be my primary sound card. I will do 99.99% of my stuff with it. It is better than the CMI, does hardware mixing, and has a snazzy EQ.

So how do we control the order in which the modules load? Via the module autoloader.

h2so4 linux # vi /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

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# /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6:  kernel modules to load when system boots. 
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6,v 1.1 2003/07/16 18:13:45 azarah Exp $ 
# 
# Note that this file is for 2.6 kernels. 
# 
# Add the names of modules that you'd like to load when the system 
# starts into this file, one per line.  Comments begin with # and 
# are ignored.  Read man modules.autoload for additional details. 
 
snd_au8830 
snd_cmipci 
snd_bt87x
snd_usb_audio 

This sets the orders that the modules will load in, and will do so before coldplug kicks in (and sets some random order, like making my USB webcam my default audio device!). If someone else knows a better way to set up the module loading order, ping the thread and I will add it. This seemed like the most simple way to me.

Go here if you don't know what the driver name is
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/

When you reboot, you can do an lsmod to see that the drivers are loaded.

h2so4 linux # lsmod

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Module                  Size  Used by 
snd_pcm_oss            52776  0 
snd_mixer_oss          17152  1 snd_pcm_oss 
snd_seq_midi            6688  0 
snd_seq_oss            33536  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      6784  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss 
snd_seq                52496  5 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event 
ov511                 127904  0 
usbhid                 34112  0 
ohci_hcd               21380  0 
nvidia               3464412  12 
tuner                  19876  0 
tvaudio                22688  0 
bttv                  157644  0 
video_buf              18436  1 bttv 
firmware_class          7936  1 bttv 
i2c_algo_bit            8840  1 bttv 
btcx_risc               4104  1 bttv 
i2c_core               20112  4 tuner,tvaudio,bttv,i2c_algo_bit 
ehci_hcd               29956  0 
uhci_hcd               31504  0 
ohci1394               32388  0 
ieee1394              100148  1 ohci1394 
via_agp                 7936  1 
agpgart                27432  2 via_agp 
snd_usb_audio          67808  2 
snd_usb_lib            11520  1 snd_usb_audio 
usbcore               108260  9 ov511,usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd,snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib 
snd_bt87x              10568  1 
snd_cmipci             28708  1 
snd_opl3_lib            9216  1 snd_cmipci 
snd_hwdep               7684  1 snd_opl3_lib 
snd_au8830             61092  2 
snd_pcm                93192  5 snd_pcm_oss,snd_usb_audio,snd_bt87x,snd_cmipci,snd_au8830 
snd_timer              24196  3 snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm 
snd_page_alloc          7688  2 snd_bt87x,snd_pcm 
snd_ac97_codec         86096  1 snd_au8830 
gameport                3840  2 snd_cmipci,snd_au8830 
snd_mpu401_uart         6400  2 snd_cmipci,snd_au8830 
snd_rawmidi            21540  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_usb_lib,snd_mpu401_uart 
snd_seq_device          7176  5 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi 
snd                    53476  28 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_usb_audio,snd_bt87x,snd_cmipci,
snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_au8830,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device 
e100                   35712  0 
mii                     4480  1 e100 
 

4: /etc/modules.d/alsa

Last but not least, we want to configure any options for our cards. I think you have to install alsa-lib and alsa-util first

vi /etc/modules.d/alsa

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# Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file. 
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsa-modules.conf-rc,v 1.2 2004/07/18 03:40:55 dragonheart Exp $ 
 
# ALSA portion 
alias char-major-116 snd 
# OSS/Free portion 
alias char-major-14 soundcore 
## 
## IMPORTANT: 
## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s) 
## and then run `update-modules' command. 
## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info. 
## 
##  ALSA portion 
alias snd-card-0 snd-au8830 
alias snd-card-1 snd-cmipci 
alias snd-card-2 snd-bt87x 
alias snd-card-3 snd-usb-audio 
 
options snd-au8330 id="first" enable_midi="1" 
options snd-cmipci id="second" 
options snd-bt87x id="third" 
options snd-usb-audio id="forth" 
##  OSS/Free portion 
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 
alias sound-slot-2 snd-card-2 
alias sound-slot-3 snd-card-3 
# OSS/Free portion - card #1 
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 
##  OSS/Free portion - card #2 
alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss 
alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss 
alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss 
##  OSS/Free portion - card #3 
alias sound-service-2-0 snd-mixer-oss 
alias sound-service-2-3 snd-pcm-oss 
alias sound-service-2-12 snd-pcm-oss 
##  OSS/Free portion - card #4 
alias sound-service-3-0 snd-mixer-oss 
alias sound-service-3-3 snd-pcm-oss 
alias sound-service-3-12 snd-pcm-oss 
 
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss 
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss 
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss 
 
options snd  device_mode=0666 
options snd cards_limit=4 

rc-update add alsa default
modules-update

you may have to reboot

Things you should know about the above...

• There is only ONE oss sequencer (/dev/midi). I would recommend using the one on your main sound card.
  
  Set the 'mode' if you want anyone other than root to be able to use the sound card.
  
  I called my cards "first, second, third, forth". You can call yours whatever you want.

Cryptic info on the config of this file can be found here.
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/do ... =usb-audio

Please ping the thread with anything that I missed.

Thank you for your time,
Frank Russo

[russofris]

1: Added usb audio device configuration. Fixed typos.
2: I went and actually "read" the posting guidelines.

Frank

[Cintra]

Looks good frank

[russofris]

Looks good frank :-)

Thanx,

If you have a specific config you need assistance with, ping the thread with the hardware (an lspci and whatever USB stuff you have) and preferences. I will write up a quick config.

Frank

[X2O]

great HOW-TO... =D

btw, I have an USB Audigy sound card and ALSA has allready detected the Audigy sound card BUT the sound is still coming out from my onboard soundcard and I cannot unmute the audigy from its external controller (the mute light is always on)....

Any suggestions?

thanks....

[kamikaze04]

Great howto,

I've got a question,

I've got a sound card (integrated in my motherboard,based on AC97) and a usb headset.

I've done all the things you say and it works fine. But i'm kde user, and i would like to know if i can say somewhere (maybe in control-panel?) that the default out "sound card" is the ac97 for all the programs, or the headset for all the programs.

Actually i have to change in every program i run which output i want, and that is quite boring because i change quite from headset to ac97 quite often.

[cocozz]

Im trying to use an USB device (Logitech headset), I followed ur HOWTO but ....

Cocozz cocozz # alsamixer

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device


Help.

2.6.9
Last ALSA drivers

Alsa loads OK :S

Cocozz cocozz # /etc/init.d/alsasound restart
* WARNING: you are stopping a boot service.
* Unloading ALSA...
* Storing ALSA Mixer Levels
* Unloading modules [ ok ] * Loading ALSA drivers...
* Using ALSA OSS emulation
* Loading: snd-mixer-oss
* Loading: snd-pcm-oss
* Loading: snd-seq-oss
* Running card-dependent scripts
* Restoring Mixer Levels

[ef2000]

Thx russofris for this great HOW-TO !!!!


I had problems with gentoo loading the onboard sound card first in alsa and nothing was working proprely.

thx again this post fixed my problem

[bonbons]

I've done all the things you say and it works fine. But i'm kde user, and i would like to know if i can say somewhere (maybe in control-panel?) that the default out "sound card" is the ac97 for all the programs, or the headset for all the programs.

Actually i have to change in every program i run which output i want, and that is quite boring because i change quite from headset to ac97 quite often.

It's possible by redefining the alsa default pcm. (If you are interested, you can also add support for dmix and dsnoop this way.) In KControlCenter you may also just specify another device in "Sound System" -> "Hardware" -> "Override Device Location" by settings "hw:0,0" or "hw:1,0" in the field.

Basic "~/.asoundrc" for your user (and restart all sound-programs after updating your .asoundrc).

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# First card default:
pcm.!default {
    type plug
    slave {
        pcm "hw:0,0"
    }
}
ctl.mixer {
    type hw
    card 0
}
# Second card default:
pcm.!default {
    type plug
    slave {
        pcm "hw:1,0"
    }
}
ctl.mixer {
    type hw
    card 1
}

[russofris]

I see a lot of good responses and feedback, thanx muchly.

The main problem that I see people having is that it is difficult to make the USB audio device the default, or to send certain things to a PCI device, and others to a USB device. As Bonbons pointed out, this is a situation where you would use dmix and a custom asoundrc (to reroute stuff).

I will see if I can come up with a howto on this, that puts things in an easy-to-understand way.

Frank

[DaNIsH]

Thanks heaps for the guide, although I didn't actually use it. Found it while trying to make my onboard (intel8x0) multi-channel after getting 2 sound cards going.
Works really well if you have TV-out going and want to watch a movie on the TV and computer at the same time (Read: Girlfriend gets me to download horribly boring soap operas)

[ef2000]

I have 2 sound cards, 1 onboard and 1 Audigy 2 ZS. I followed the HOW-TO and it did help me a lot to fix my problem.

For some reason, I couldn't get sound with my Audigy 2 ZS (even with a good configuration). With XMMS, I could see the sound actually being sent to the card but no sound was heared. It turns out that Kmix was the problem. Even if I unmuted the sound card with amixer, kmix was somehow muting the PCI sound card (audigy) by default. I was able to get sound from my onboard card and that was it.

I suggest to also prevent kmix to take over your system by doing this :

1. deactivate kmix (uncheck all boxes in config!!!)
also disable the channel and make sure every lights are turned to red.
2. /etc/init.d/alsasound stop
3. rm /etc/asound.state
4. /etc/init.d/alsasound start
5. reactivate/unmute the channels with alsamixer or amixer

Now, my sound is working completly. After thinking it might be the drive or alsa, the solution was different than that. I hope this might help as well for others.

[reyneke]

First of all: Thx for this great tut. I always hated configuring ALSA but everythig worked like charm following your Howto.
But I got another question for this issue:

(...) and i would like to know if i can say somewhere (maybe in control-panel?) that the default out "sound card" is the ac97 for all the programs, or the headset for all the programs. (...)

It's possible by redefining the alsa default pcm.(...)In KControlCenter you may also just specify another device in "Sound System" -> "Hardware" -> "Override Device Location" by settings "hw:0,0" or "hw:1,0" in the field. (...)

How do I manage that without KControlcenter? I often use Fluxbox, especially for gaming ans want to switch from my speakers ( sound card #1) to my headset ( non-usb, sound card #2 ).
Can this be done with a(lsa)mixer or do I have to merge some additional app?
Thx in advance,
reyneke.

P.S.: Plz excuse my language or if the question was answered before and I didn't realize. Englich is not my native tongue.

[bonbons]

(...) and i would like to know if i can say somewhere (maybe in control-panel?) that the default out "sound card" is the ac97 for all the programs, or the headset for all the programs. (...)

It's possible by redefining the alsa default pcm.(...)In KControlCenter you may also just specify another device in "Sound System" -> "Hardware" -> "Override Device Location" by settings "hw:0,0" or "hw:1,0" in the field. (...)

How do I manage that without KControlcenter? I often use Fluxbox, especially for gaming ans want to switch from my speakers ( sound card #1) to my headset ( non-usb, sound card #2 ).
Can this be done with a(lsa)mixer or do I have to merge some additional app?

There isn't a way to do it through a GUI as far as I know. For all apps that use ALSA directly, the best way is to configure them with a common devicename (usually "default") that you manually point to the hardware device of your choice in ~/.asoundrc.
But you will probably need to restart the apps after a change to ~/.asoundrc (depends on how the app uses the alsalibs!)
For OSS apps you will have to use symlinks in /dev.

The only way to use alsamixer for it, is to output sound permanently to both cards, and muting one of both with alsamixer. (But then you loos the advantage of having two cards!)

[kudude]

For all apps that use ALSA directly, the best way is to configure them with a common devicename (usually "default") that you manually point to the hardware device of your choice in ~/.asoundrc.

how do i go about doing this? I have two cards working, and using something like xmms where there is a preference for which card i can get output from whichever i choose. I just want to know if there is some commandline argument i can use? thanks

[TheCoop]

is there some way of duplicating the output to both sound cards, ie whatever is sent to the first one is also sent to the second one (I dont care about syncing it or anything like that)

[russofris]

Good news,

A friend of mine has just picked up a USB headset (with a Mic built in). I will see if I can add the asoundrc portion in a few days.

Frank

[alex]

I followed the steps of the howto to prefend the mic of the webcam to become the default sound card, but without luck. And I'm stuck to get them in the right order.

/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

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nvidia
via-rhine
snd_via82xx
snd_usb_audio
pwc
lp

dmesg

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Linux version 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 (root@legolas.t-online.de) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5-r1, ssp-3.3.2-3, pie-8.7.7.1)) #1 Sat Mar 26 23:26:49 CET 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 126960 pages, LIFO batch:16
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.2 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 KT400                                 ) @ 0x000f7780
ACPI: RSDT (v001 KT400  AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3000
ACPI: FADT (v001 KT400  AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 KT400  AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 20000000:dec00000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: udev root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hdb3
Found and enabled local APIC!
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Detected 1729.096 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Speakup v-2.00 CVS: Wed Mar 2 20:22:02 EST 2005 : initialized
Speakup:  loading module "speakup_n"
request_module: runaway loop modprobe speakup_n
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 512608k/524224k available (3022k kernel code, 10996k reserved, 1022k data, 204k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 3407.87 BogoMIPS (lpj=1703936)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Couldn't initialize miscdevice /dev/synth.
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000020 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0e20)
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 1597k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb3d0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Via IRQ fixup
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 1 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] (IRQs 20) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] (IRQs 21) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] (IRQs 22) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] (IRQs 23) *0, disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
** PCI interrupts are no longer routed automatically.  If this
** causes a device to stop working, it is probably because the
** driver failed to call pci_enable_device().  As a temporary
** workaround, the "pci=routeirq" argument restores the old
** behavior.  If this argument makes the device work again,
** please email the output of "lspci" to bjorn.helgaas@hp.com
** so I can fix the driver.
Machine check exception polling timer started.
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
inotify device minor=63
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
SGI XFS with large block numbers, no debug enabled
Initializing Cryptographic API
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
vesafb: NVidia Corporation, NV25 Board, Chip Rev    (OEM: NVidia)
vesafb: VBE version: 3.0
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:e9d0
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00cea15, set palette = c00cea9a
vesafb: pmi: ports = b4c3 b503 ba03 c003 c103 c403 c503 c603 c703 c803 c903 cc03 ce03 cf03 d003 d103 d203 d303 d403 d503 da03 ff03
vesafb: hardware doesn't support DCC transfers
vesafb: monitor limits: vf = 0 Hz, hf = 0 kHz, clk = 0 MHz
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd8000000, mapped to 0xe0880000, using 600k, total 131072k
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 2 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (57 C)
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe400-0xe407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe408-0xe40f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: IC35L120AVV207-0, ATA DISK drive
hda: IRQ probe failed (0xecf8)
hdb: IC35L120AVV207-0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IRQ probe failed (0xecf8)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX185E3, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8161B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 241254720 sectors (123522 MB) w/1821KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
hdb: max request size: 1024KiB
hdb: 241254720 sectors (123522 MB) w/1821KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: cache flushes supported
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 p3
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33)
st: Version 20041025, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP established hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
powernow-k8: Processor cpuid 662 not supported
ACPI wakeup devices:
SLPB PCI0 USB0 USB1 USB2 USB6 USB7 USB8 USB9 LAN0 UAR1 LPT1
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.3[D] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 5, pci mem 0xeb001000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 11, io base 0xd800
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.1[B] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#2)
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 10, io base 0xdc00
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.2[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#3)
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 10, io base 0xe000
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[10]  MMIO=[eb000000-eb0007ff]  Max Packet=[2048]
sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
libata version 1.10 loaded.
ReiserFS: hdb3: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on hdb3
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hdb3, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[0011066645555565]
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
pwc Philips webcam module version 10.0.6-unofficial loaded.
pwc Supports Philips PCA645/646, PCVC675/680/690, PCVC720[40]/730/740/750 & PCVC830/840.
pwc Also supports the Askey VC010, various Logitech Quickcams, Samsung MPC-C10 and MPC-C30,
pwc the Creative WebCam 5 & Pro Ex, SOTEC Afina Eye and Visionite VCS-UC300 and VCS-UM100.
pwc Trace options: 0x00a1
pwc Philips PCVC740K (ToUCam Pro)/PCVC840 (ToUCam II) USB webcam detected.
pwc Registered as /dev/video0.
usbcore: registered new driver Philips webcam
usb 2-1: modprobe timed out on ep0out
usb 2-1: modprobe timed out on ep0in
usbcore: registered new driver snd-usb-audio
Adding 996020k swap on /dev/hdb2.  Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hdb3, internal journal
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module  1.0-7167  Fri Feb 25 09:08:22 PST 2005
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x1ec00, 00:01:29:4e:1a:42, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 01e1 Link 45e1.
via82xx: Assuming DXS channels with 48k fixed sample rate.
         Please try dxs_support=1 or dxs_support=4 option
         and report if it works on your machine.
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: Printer, hp deskjet 6122
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
FAT: "conv=auto" option is obsolete, not supported now
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
agpgart: Detected VIA KT400/KT400A/KT600 chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000

[MagnusBerg]

Hurray my depression is gone.
Since upgrading the Alsa things to 1.0.8 I always had to restart Alsa to make the mixer work. After reading this great how-to I understand that my TV/radio-cardmodule was loaded before my real soundcard.
But I didn't put all modules in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 just the one I wanted to load first - snd_via82xx - and cold/hot -plug takes care of the rest.
Thanks russofris, you are a great shrink!

[lukaz]

hi there,

have a look @ Fernando Lopez-Lezcano's ccrma home -> Configuring multiple sound cards

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/s ... 0000000000

to get a idea about...

in /etc/modules.d/alsa
>alias snd-card-0 snd-CARD_0
>options snd-CARD_0 index=0

index starts counting with 0. a modules-update, reboot or alsa stop/start and you shuld be done. I have not tried it yet, but it is reported to work on gentoo...

(german)
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-30 ... ight-.html

lukaz

[TheCoop]

Ive got a usb sound card ive set as the 2nd sound card, done all the cool things on this thread. The card appears in /proc/asound, but the device nodes arent created:

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tachyon simon # ls /proc/asound
MP3  SI7012  card0  card1  cards  devices  oss  pcm  seq  timers  version
tachyon simon # cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [SI7012         ]: ICH - SiS SI7012
                     SiS SI7012 with CMI9739 at 0xe400, irq 18
1 [MP3            ]: USB-Audio - Sound Blaster MP3+
                     Creative Labs Sound Blaster MP3+ at usb-0000:00:03.3-3.2, full speed
tachyon simon # ls /dev/snd
controlC0  controlC1  pcmC0D0c  pcmC0D0p  pcmC0D1c  seq  timer

[koroumel]

I'm puzzled! I own a SB Audigy and a SB Audigy 2 ZS. As far as I know, they use the same driver/module, how am I going to specify which one should be loaded first?

[russofris]

I'm puzzled! I own a SB Audigy and a SB Audigy 2 ZS. As far as I know, they use the same driver/module, how am I going to specify which one should be loaded first?

I assume it's eriher by level, edge, or IRQ, so when you do an lspci, assume the one with the lowest or highest pciID number gets the priority.

Frank

[jhunholz]

I have this idea for making a central media server for my house. This box would have 4 or 5 different sound cards, and I would like them to all work in unison, or stand-alone, so I can turn them on or off when I want. So, is this do-able? From reading this thread, it seems like you can only use one sound card at a time, so I wouldn't be able to play on all of them. So could I do that, or not?

[Root Moose]

This is my config:

- VIA onbaord that uses the via82xx driver. This is configured and works fine.
- Creative Audigy 2 NX USB. This is supposed to use emu10k1. This card does not seem to want to be configured.

uname -a

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Linux recon 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 #1 Fri May 13 13:57:05 EDT 2005 i686 VIA Nehemiah CentaurHauls GNU/Linux

lsmod

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Module                  Size  Used by
snd_seq                55760  0 
snd_pcm_oss            54304  0 
snd_mixer_oss          20512  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_via82xx            27936  0 
snd_mpu401_uart         8192  1 snd_via82xx
snd_emu10k1           103268  0 
snd_rawmidi            25536  2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_device          8652  3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec         78840  2 snd_via82xx,snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm                96872  4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              26596  3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         10020  3 snd_via82xx,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem            4512  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep               9792  1 snd_emu10k1
snd                    56068  12 snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,\
snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep

cat /etc/modules.d/alsa

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# Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file.
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsa-modules.conf-rc,v 1.2 2004/07/18 03:40:55 dragonheart Exp $

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
#options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=2
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
alias snd-card-1 snd-emu10k1
#alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio

options snd-via82xx dxs_support=3 id="via"
#options snd-emu10k1 index=0 enable_ir=1 extin="0x3fc3" extout="0x1fff"
options snd-emu10k1 id="audigy"


# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore

##
## IMPORTANT:
## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s)
## and then run `update-modules' command.
## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info.
##
##  ALSA portion
## alias snd-card-0 snd-interwave
## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371
##  OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1

# OSS/Free portion - card #1
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
##  OSS/Free portion - card #2
alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-1-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-1-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss

alias /dev/sound/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/sound/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/sound/midi snd-seq-oss

# Set this to the correct number of cards.
options snd cards_limit=2

cat /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

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# /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6:  kernel modules to load when system boots.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6,v 1.1 2003/07/16 18:13:45 azarah Exp $
#
# Note that this file is for 2.6 kernels.
#
# Add the names of modules that you'd like to load when the system
# starts into this file, one per line.  Comments begin with # and
# are ignored.  Read man modules.autoload for additional details.

snd_emu10k1
snd_via82xx

cat /proc/asound/cards

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0 [via            ]: VIA8233 - VIA 8235
                     VIA 8235 with VT1616i at 0xe400, irq 10

dmesg

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Linux version 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 (root@recon) (gcc version 3.3.5-20050130 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5.20050130-r1, ssp-3.3.5.20050130-1, pie-8.7.7.1)) #2 Mon May 16 16:04:11 EDT 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001bff0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001bff0000 - 000000001bff3000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001bff3000 - 000000001c000000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
447MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 114672
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 110576 pages, LIFO batch:16
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.2 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 VT9174                                ) @ 0x000f6650
ACPI: RSDT (v001 VT9174 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1bff3000
ACPI: FADT (v001 VT9174 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1bff3040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 VT9174 AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
Allocating PCI resources starting at 1c000000 (gap: 1c000000:e3ff0000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:1024x768-24@76 splash=verbose,theme:emergence
fbsplash: verbose
fbsplash: theme emergence
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c0551000 soft=c0550000
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Detected 999.566 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 448828k/458688k available (3104k kernel code, 9252k reserved, 1114k data, 172k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 1974.27 BogoMIPS (lpj=987136)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0380b03d 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (32 bytes/line), D cache 64K (32 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (32 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0380b13d 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000003d 00000000
CPU: Centaur VIA Nehemiah stepping 04
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0ea0)
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 590k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb260, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Via IRQ fixup
PCI: Via IRQ fixup
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 1 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 *7 10 11 12 14 15)
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
** PCI interrupts are no longer routed automatically.  If this
** causes a device to stop working, it is probably because the
** driver failed to call pci_enable_device().  As a temporary
** workaround, the "pci=routeirq" argument restores the old
** behavior.  If this argument makes the device work again,
** please email the output of "lspci" to bjorn.helgaas@hp.com
** so I can fix the driver.
longhaul: VIA C3 'Nehemiah B' [C5N] CPU detected.  Powersaver supported.
inotify device minor=63
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
SGI XFS with no debug enabled
Initializing Cryptographic API
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
hw_random hardware driver 1.0.0 loaded
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected VIA CLE266 chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 380M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xc0000000
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925
vga16fb: initializing
vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fbsplash: console 0 using theme 'emergence'
fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 2 throttling states)
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
input: PC Speaker
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0xd6002000, 00:40:63:d3:fd:f9, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link cde1.
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6320,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951),ta8874z
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: FUJITSU MHT2040AH, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: ASUS CD-S500/A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes supported
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4
hdc: ATAPI 50X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 7
PCI: setting IRQ 7 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.3[D] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 7, pci mem 0xd6001000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 11, io base 0xd400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.1[B] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#2)
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 5, io base 0xd800
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.2[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#3)
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 10, io base 0xdc00
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
usbcore: registered new driver dsbr100
drivers/usb/media/dsbr100.c: v0.40:D-Link DSB-R100 USB FM radio driver
i2c /dev entries driver
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
IPv4 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI wakeup devices: 
PCI0 USB0 USB1 USB2 USB3 USB4 USB5 USB6 LAN0 AC97 MC97 UAR1 
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
XFS mounting filesystem hda3
Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: hda3
VFS: Mounted root (xfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
Adding 755044k swap on /dev/hda2.  Priority:-1 extents:1
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64
XFS mounting filesystem hda4
Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: hda4
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xCDE1
nfs warning: mount version older than kernel
nfs warning: mount version older than kernel
nfs warning: mount version older than kernel
fbsplash: console 0 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 1 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 2 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 3 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 4 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 5 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 6 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 7 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 8 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 9 using theme 'emergence'
fbsplash: console 10 using theme 'emergence'

lspci

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0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266]
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
0000:00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03)

lsusb

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Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04b4:1002 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. CY7C63001 R100 FM Radio
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 041e:3020 Creative Technology, Ltd SoundBlaster Audigy 2 NX
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

I feel like I'm missing a little detail. Ideas?

r@m