DFI Ultra-D nf4 - ALC850, soundcard not recognized

[sunnydelight]

I have a DFI Ultra-D nforce 4 motherboard that has an addon Realtek ALC850 sound card. I know this is a popular board, and it seems other people are able to get sound working with this board, but I can't.

Popping in the Gentoo AMD64 2005.0 live cd, it detects a soundcard but says its unknown. So after getting my installation done. I tried compiling my kernel with ALSA and intel8x0 sound drivers and i see it loaded but it doesn't detect my sound card...

# lspci -v | grep -i audio
0000:00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)

alsa-project.org says its use the intel8x0 drivers... I did....

-Ran alsaconf too and it cannot find my soundcard...

btw, sound works fine in windows

[steve_chestnut]

I have a DFI lanparty nf4 sli-dr mobo with the realtek ALC850 sound on a daughter board and I can't get alsaconf to find it. I compiled the module: intel8x0 and loaded it with modprobe. I went through the Gentoo ALSA guide but when I run alsaconf I get "no pnp or pci soundcards found"

however card0/ shows up in /cat/asound and:

$cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [CK804 ]: NFORCE NVidia CK804
NVidia CK805 with ALC850 at 0xfe02d000, irq 225

Here's some relevant dmesg:

Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU.
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x1000-0x107f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x1080-0x10ff has been reserved
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x1400-0x147f has been reserved
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x1480-0x14ff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x1800-0x187f has been reserved
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x1880-0x18ff has been reserved
IA32 emulation $Id: sys_ia32.c,v 1.32 2002/03/24 13:02:28 ak Exp $
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
inotify device minor=63
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0b.0 to 64
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0c.0 to 64
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0d.0 to 64
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0e.0 to 64
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (40 C)
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
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
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 6.0.54-k2
Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.35.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCH] enabled at IRQ 23
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> Link [APCH] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 217
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0a.0 to 64
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 010de:cb84 bound to 0000:00:0a.0
tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
netconsole: not configured, aborting
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
NFORCE-CK804: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:06.0
NFORCE-CK804: chipset revision 162
NFORCE-CK804: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
NFORCE-CK804: 0000:00:06.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe800-0xe807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe808-0xe80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA

and this:

Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 1.01, 22:59:23 Sep 1 2005
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.9rc2 (Thu Mar 24 10:33:39 2005 UTC).
ALSA device list:
No soundcards found.

and maybe this is related too:

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCJ] enabled at IRQ 22
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A] -> Link [APCJ] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 225
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49696 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 46773

I'm using gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r9. Can anyone help? It seems the kernel sees my card fine but alsa doesn't.

Thanks!!

[yassim]

ive same motherboard, same problem same ...!!!

[steve_chestnut]

2 days ago I tried running alsaconf again and it worked. It found the sound board and "configured" something. Now programs like Xmms run but I hear nothing. I checked all the volumes and they're ok, in xmms the the frequency histogram moves around like noise should be coming out but still nothing. If anyone solves this please post to this thread or post a link to this thread.

Steve

[yassim]

another dfi user, same problem!

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-365781-highlight-dfi+sound.html

...

bad news?

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-373839-highlight-nforce+4+audio.html

[yassim]

Resolved!!!

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml