sound card issues on a Dell D800

[pfadt_mann]

I have a D800, 1.7Ghz Pentium-m, 512MB RAM, nvidia GeForce Go5200 with 32MB.

I added the line
ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0"

to my /etc/make.conf file, I compiled the kernel with what I think are the right drivers,
<*> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
<*> Sequencer support
< > Sequencer dummy client
<*> OSS Mixer API
<*> OSS PCM (digital audio) API
[*] OSS PCM (digital audio) API - Include plugin system
[*] OSS Sequencer API

PCI devices --->
<*> Emu10k1X (Dell OEM Version)
<*> Intel/SiS/nVidia/AMD/ALi AC97 Controller
USB devices --->
<*> USB Audio/MIDI driver
Processor type and features --->
<*> Dell laptop support
Firmware Drivers --->
<*> Dell Systems Management Base Driver


I don't get any sound. When I boot, I can see the error scroll by that says ALSA can't load the driver but I can't find the syslog or boot log to validate what I am seeing.

jmhlap-gn2 linux # ps -ef | grep syslog
root 8945 1 0 09:24 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng
102 9064 1 0 09:24 ? 00:00:01 /usr/sbin/hald --use-syslog
root 12955 12800 0 11:20 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --colour=auto syslog

I have syslog-ng installed.


Any idea?
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Pfadt Mann

[krinn]

[pfadt_mann]

When I run alsaconf, it says it can find my sound card at all. When I boot from windows the sound is fine.

I run hwsetup - n -v and it gives me this

Among other things:
-------------
class: AUDIO
bus: PCI
device: (null) does this mean anything? I mean something I need to correct?
driver: snd-intel8x0
desc: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller
-------------
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[krinn]

yes, it means you have to go there & follow the guide http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml
take care on how to identify your card section 2.1, build the drivers as modules (section 2.3)...

for your log information, you will not see any alsa in your log, but a reference to the alsa driver you are using.
you can get message log from dmesg or in /var/log (i think it's /message for syslogng)
so dmesg | grep alsa = nothing, but dmesg | grep intel8x0 will do
to get log information from your booting service (as alsa) you need to change RC_BOOTLOG="yes" in /etc/conf.d/rc

and finally with some hope, a moderator will move that thread to multimedia so you will get more answers there...

[pfadt_mann]

I followed that and still get nothing. When I launch kde, I get the big grey box in the middle of my screen and it hides everything, see my avatar.

I know the sound card is working because I use it on windows.

Could this be a USE issues?
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[krinn]

please show results of

lspci | grep audio
cat /etc/modules.d/alsa

[pfadt_mann]

jmhgn2 ~ # cat /etc/modules.d/alsa
# Alsa kernel modules' configuration file.

# ALSA portion
# OSS/Free portion

##
## IMPORTANT:
## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s)
## and then run `modules-update' 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
## 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

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

# Set this to the correct number of cards.
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF version 1.0.14rc1 ---
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
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[krinn]

seems correct.

what message do you have when you do /etc/init.d/alsasound restart

[pfadt_mann]

I actually removes alsa-utils and compiles the sound into the kernel to see if that would work and still nothing. I will have to set everything back as modules and recompile the add alsa-utils back.
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