intel8x0 alsa :(

joem · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 8:11 am Post subject: intel8x0 alsa :(

I know there have been many threads about the intel8x0 alsa driver so I will explain myself.
I have read through every thread witht the phrase intel8x0 and still have come up with nothing. I have compiled the snd-intel8x0 alsa driver and everything seems to go find but I get no sound output. There are no errors of anykind..just no sound. Here is a list of details about this problem since I have already tried many soultions

cat /dev/audio gives me output
I have every single channel at full volume
I tried plugging into the headphone jack(and every other jack)
I tried using built in kernel support..nothing
I tried using other alsa drivers like via
I have ACPI support enabled

here is an output of lsmod

oisch · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 130

first of all: are you sure that you have to use this driver?

I have a Asus P4PE with onboard sound, and the intel8x0 driver works for me.
At first I couldn't get it work with alsa, so I used the kernel modules. Worked, but sucked.
But with newer versions of alsa (I just emerged 0.92) it works now:
In the kernel I disabled the intel8x0 support and enabled the soundcore module.
My /etc/modules.d/alsa:

joem · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 5:02 pm Post subject: Thanks

oh my thank you ever so much. I was not aware that you have to press M while using alsa mixer to unmute the channels. I just moved everything up to the top and assumed it was a go. You are the only person who has ever brought that to my attention. Thanks again and I hope this can be of some help to others.

Beetle B. · Guru Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 524

No luck on my side. I too have the P4PE.

I haven't gotten as far as most people - I can't even get ALSA to load up the driver on boot. I tried both 0.9.1 drivers and 0.9.2. I have disabled all sound drivers from the kernel, with just the option for sound enabled as a module. Here's what dmesg gives me:

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Beetle B. · Guru Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 524

Could a moderator delete one of those posts?

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heijs · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 9:15 am Post subject:

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You can edit the post yourself you know.
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On topic, I also have the P4PE and ALSA does not work for me either.
I also tried to use the pink plug, but nothing works...

At the moment I am using my SB Live again, but I really want to use my onboard sound...

snutte · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 1:13 pm Post subject:

I also have a Asus p4pe and my sound works perfect with alsa.
When i get home from work i can upload my .config and a small text describing how i got it to work.

For what i can remeber right now all i did was to enable sound support in the kernel as a module and then i emerged alsa-drivers and alsa-tools.
Then i modprobe snd-intel8x0 and unmuted the channels through alsamixer. Works like a charm.

Beetle B. · Guru Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 524

Here's what I get when I modprobe it:

snutte · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 5:13 pm Post subject:

This is how i made snd-intel8x0 work on my Asus p4pe

from my kernelconfig that has something to do with sound

oisch · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 130

---edited--- That was nonsense: I must have been too tired yesterday :wink:

modal · Apprentice Joined: 02 Oct 2002 Posts: 277

you don't need to add snd-intel8x0 to your modprobe, since the alsa boot script handles all that by itself.

paleck · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 37 Location: The US

I personally have never gotten the scripts to work correctly on their own.
The only way it works for me is to follow the instructions that are on the site, but I added a local script that executes:

bzugda · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2002 Posts: 39 Location: Barnsley

2501 · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 8:42 am Post subject: closed circle for intel8x0 users

hi

this shall give you a short total on what exactly is to be done to make things go with an intel8x0. I hope this will be of use for anyone experiencing difficulties...

whenever I recompile my kernel, I run this dirty little shell script:

m4chine · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 5:32 pm Post subject:

you do know that you are not running any support for your ide controllers.

cylgalad · Veteran Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 1327 Location: France

There's no problem with IDE, it's udma-100. The 1st line is always there.

Keyed · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 4:22 am Post subject:

I have the intel i8x0 and had it working with vanilla-2.4.20 and when I switched to gentoo-2.4.20-r5 it stoped working. Tonight I decided to try again and it's now working.

The only thing I did different tonight was to make sure that only the sound card support was chosen as a module and nothing else was selected in sound. The driver names had changed somewhere along the line.

Then:

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Keyed · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 2:00 pm Post subject:

I checked which alsa-driver version was installed and it listed 0.9.2. I checked the media-sound/alsa-driver directory and they have drivers up to 0.9.6, but according to emerge, my system is up to date. Are all of those above 0.9.2 masked, if so thats a lot of versions masked.
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Peaceable Frood · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 1:15 pm Post subject:

I had the exact same problem, disabling ACPI support and using APM, was the thing that probably fixed it.
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kurifu · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Posts: 77

I am using a Toshiba Satellite 1110 laptop which has the intel 810 chipset in it with AC'97 based sound. Though ALSA did take a bit of time to set up I managed to get it running with dmix with no problems at all. Better sounding than OSS in my opinion.

I am using kernel 2.4.22_pre2-gss, With OSS not compiled, and Sound compiled as a module. I am using alsa-lib and alsa-driver "intel8x0" versions 0.9.5(-r2) with alsa-oss 0.9.4

This information that came out of my dmesg: