Hi Christian, I've installed Redhat 9.0 on my ASUS P4PE and experienced the same problem (also seems to exist on boards with other sound-chips, e.g. via82xxx). Thanks to the people on this list I found out that it usually comes down to one of two problems:
1. The ALSA driver can't load because of a conflict with the OSS driver. 2. The ALSA driver mutes some channels by default, which need to be unmuted. Ad 1.: Use /sbin/lsmod to see the list of installed modules. If ALSA is loaded correctly you should see something like ... snd-intel8x0 22564 0 (autoclean) snd-pcm 85248 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0] snd-timer 19588 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm] snd-ac97-codec 47944 0 (autoclean) [snd-intel8x0] snd-mpu401-uart 5200 0 (autoclean) [snd-intel8x0] snd-rawmidi 18560 0 (autoclean) [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 6204 0 (autoclean) [snd-rawmidi] snd 42916 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] soundcore 6404 4 (autoclean) [snd] ... It's important that it says snd-intel8x0 and NOT i810_audio, otherwise the OSS driver was loaded first and the ALSA driver can't load anymore. In this case try "/sbin/modprobe -r i810_audio" as root to remove the OSS module (you possibly need to unload the modules that depend on this one first) and then "/sbin/modprobe snd-intel8x0" to install ALSA. Note that this change is probably not permanent and will only last until the next reboot. On Redhat I switched off the hardware auto-detection called 'kudzu' using "ntsysv" and double-checked that /etc/modules.conf does not contain a reference to i810_audio but only to snd-intel8x0, although there's probably a more intelligent way. My modules.conf looks something like this: ... # alsa alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 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 post-install snd-intel8x0 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore pre-remove snd-intel8x0 /usr/sbin/alsactl store ... As far as I know SUSE uses yast instead of kudzu to detect hardware so maybe you could use that to uninstall the soundcard. Ad 2.: You need to use a mixer that supports ALSA natively (like "alsamixer") to ummute all the channels; kmix won't do. Good luck -- Frank -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Christian Schneider Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. Juni 2003 14:19 An: Alsa Mailinglist Betreff: [Alsa-user] Problem with AD1980 on Asus P4PE motherboard Hi list, I have a problem with my on-board sound. Details about my hard-/software: - Motherboard: Asus P4PE with sound on-board - Sound: "SoundMax" ADI AD1980 AC'97 audio CODEC - OS: SuSE Linux 8.1 Pro As far as I know the SuSE uses Alsa by default. I configured the sound card with yast (auto-detected as "82801DB AC'97 Audio"), but the speakers were silent. I searched the web with google and found out that the sound might come out of the pink microphone jack instead of the lime line out jack. (Other users seem to have the same problem.) As the computer has a second operating system (Win XP, sorry ;-)) and the sound card works properly under Windows, it seems to be a driver problem under Linux. How can I make the sound card work properly under Linux? Thanks in advance. Cheers, Christian ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
