Unsupported Soundcard - Help!

2003-01-10 Thread Paul W
Hello all

Trying this one yet again - I suppose I may just have to 
buy another soundcard, recommendations anyone?
BTW sndconfig tells me the card isn't supported.

My new PC has a built in soundcard and despite a lot of RTFMing and 
experimentation I still have no idea how to make it work.
The motherboard manual says:

Integrated Audio Controller in Intel 82801DB I/O Controller Hub (ICH4)
AD 1981A/Realtek ALC202A Audio Codec '97

What I fondly imagine to be the relevant portion of lspci -v:

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24c5 (rev 
01)
        Subsystem: Trigem Computer Inc.: Unknown device 3186
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
        I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256]
        I/O ports at 18c0 [size=64]
        Memory at e8000c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
        Memory at e8000800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
snd-pcm-oss            36100   0  (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss          10528   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-intel8x0           15904   0  (autoclean)
snd-pcm                54976   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0]
snd-timer              10208   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart         2560   0  (autoclean) [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi            12192   0  (autoclean) [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device          3760   0  (autoclean) [snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec         24880   0  [snd-intel8x0]
snd                    24104   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 
snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]
soundcore               3492   4  [snd]
nvidia               1466752  10
8139too                13920   1
mii                     1088   0  [8139too]


Has anyone got any ideas, or more information I need to supply??
After spending 2 or 3 days getting the DVD player to work it seems a shame 
not to be able to hear it!

Thanks

Paul Walton


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Re: Unsupported Soundcard - Help!

2003-01-10 Thread Rodrigo F. Baroni
 --- Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu:  Hello
all

 My new PC has a built in soundcard and despite a lot
 of RTFMing and 
 experimentation I still have no idea how to make it
 work.
 The motherboard manual says:
 
 Integrated Audio Controller in Intel 82801DB I/O
 Controller Hub (ICH4)
 AD 1981A/Realtek ALC202A Audio Codec '97
cut

 Your sound-card is on-board. First, be shure about
the name of it, the chipset that makes it work - open
your pc and see the name of the chipset on the
main-board - maybe you'll need it after.

 I doesn't know if you found a driver for your
sound-card, but there is already one loaded (like
shows above, in snd* and soundcore ) :
  
 lsmod:
 
 Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
 snd-pcm-oss            36100   0  (autoclean)
 snd-mixer-oss          10528   0  (autoclean)
 [snd-pcm-oss]
 snd-intel8x0           15904   0  (autoclean)
 snd-pcm                54976   0  (autoclean)
 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0]
 snd-timer              10208   0  (autoclean)
 [snd-pcm]
 snd-mpu401-uart         2560   0  (autoclean)
 [snd-intel8x0]
 snd-rawmidi            12192   0  (autoclean)
 [snd-mpu401-uart]
 snd-seq-device          3760   0  (autoclean)
 [snd-rawmidi]
 snd-ac97-codec         24880   0  [snd-intel8x0]
 snd                    24104   0  [snd-pcm-oss
 snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 
 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi
 snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]
 soundcore               3492   4  [snd]
 nvidia               1466752  10
 8139too                13920   1
 mii                     1088   0  [8139too]
 

  You'll need to remove its firt. To do this, I
recomend you do has follow : 

  1) move all this modules to another place - If its
be in a directory in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/snd
(directory snd, or misc, for example), - %mv
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/snd /backup-lib-snd-modules

  2) get a driver to it (maybe someone knows where to
find your drive, or search at google if you haven't it
yet)

  3) download it, decompress it, and change to it´s
directory.

  4) READY VERY CAREFFULY the README file, or
INSTALL, .. or something like this, and do the steps
like sad.

  5) If you did everything like ready (and had some
luck too, hehe), you'll have yours modules in
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/snd (or misc,...).

  6) Shutdown your pc, reboot and try to play some
sound.

  7) If nothing work fine, remove the modules
installed, and bring the originally back - %rm -Rf
/lib/modules/`uname -r´/snd (or misc,.. ) and %mv
/backup-lib-snd-modules. Shutdown again.

 Theses are the steps that you maybe try, the way that
the things happen in linux. I think that say you how
to think is better than how maybe do.. , because
things like this takes some *hurd* times... (not
always :) ).
 
 Has anyone got any ideas, or more information I need
 to supply??
 After spending 2 or 3 days getting the DVD player to
 work it seems a shame 
 not to be able to hear it!
 

  I know how it is.. I had been 2 week to configure 2
pcs at all and a cluster! But I'm almost at the end :)


 Thanks
 
 Paul Walton
 
 


Rodrigo F Baroni
Computer Science Grad Student
Sao Paulo, Brazil

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