SiS 7018 + ALSA

R!tman · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:31 pm Post subject: SiS 7018 + ALSA

Hi all,

kernel 2.6.1(gentoo-dev-sources) is mostly running fine on my laptop; except for sound. I did the same procedure on my desktop and it worked right away. For my laptop I compiled:

R!tman · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:01 pm Post subject:

By the way, I have tried to compile everything as modules, too. But that did not help it.

R!tman · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 6:13 pm Post subject:

Doesn't anyone have an idea? I mean, SiS chipset is quite common...

twstd3bc · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 3:39 am Post subject: no clue here either

I don't know of anyone who got snd_trident working in kernel 2.6. I'll go look at the alsa mailing list and see...

R!tman · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 8:12 am Post subject:

Really? I posted, because I did not find anyone with the same problem. Please post again, if you find any information regarding this subject. Thank you.

Phk · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 5:28 pm Post subject: Possible solution

Hi there.

I have an Amilo laptop with a SiS7012 soundcard, which worked perfectly with 2.4x kernels, and gave a lot of problems with the new 2.6.1...

I've done everything exactly has you did, and it behaved has bad has yours..

But, the solution was rather weird...

rebuild your kernel without MIDI support.

I know this sound very very strange, but here are the steps i took:

Phk

Hi there.

I have an Amilo laptop with a SiS7012 soundcard, which worked perfectly with 2.4x kernels, and gave a lot of problems with the new 2.6.1...

I've done everything exactly has you did, and it behaved has bad has yours..

But, the solution was rather weird...

rebuild your kernel without MIDI support.

I know this sound very very strange, but here are the steps i took:

Phk · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 5:30 pm Post subject: (sorry for the repeated post!)

R!tman · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 8:20 pm Post subject:

@Phx

Good, that it worked for you. Unfortunately, I have a SiS 7018 (not 7012) soundcard.
One question: Why did you compile alsa-DRIVERS??? This support should be given by the kernel or with kernel modules. Have you tried to get your card to work without the alsa-drivers (only libs and utils)?

Phk

Why? Cause the kernel drivers didn't work! Now i don't know which ones are working, since the kernel says exactly the same thing before....

Well, at least it works now

And yours should works too, the difference of 7018 and 1012 is minimum.....

You should try the MIDI thing, made my speakers sing..

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ryszardzonk · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 10:05 am Post subject: sis 7018

i have sis 7018 just like You on te laptoop and I didnt have any problems with it with any 2.6 kernel version. presently i have 2.6.2-mm1 and it worls like a charm

what You shoud do is UNINSTALL alsa-drivers as they are not needed and provided by the kernel sources. what you still need is alsa-libs and alsa-utils. Utils are neesesery for you to get alsamixer which is needed to get any sound from alsa. The mixer is MUTED by default.

anyway what you need to do

1) have every alsa stuff in kernel setup as module ( no defference really, but makes your kernel more stable in case sound so going to get screwed up - that is why everything that is NOT NEEDED for boot should be as module)
2 OPTIONAL)
A --- if your soundcard is not recognized it my be that You need to go back to your PCI settings and check the "CONFIG_PCI_GO_ANY=y" option so it can get access to all PCI resources for probing purposes
B --- other option to chceck is "CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y"
This should solve yours NO SOUND CARDS FOUND problem

3) after You reboot your new kernel start "alsaconf" which should setup your card properly

4) here you my have to edit modules file by
# nano "/etc/modules.d/alsa" and put Your sound card there which in our case is "snd-trident"
5) then start "alsamixer" (from alsautils) to setup your volume on the sound card
6) last is "rc-update add alsasound boot" without this You wold not get the sound after reboot, becouse with alsa it has to be restored everytime after rebbot and that is what this script does

7) GOOD LUCK

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R!tman · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 2:14 pm Post subject:

@ ryszardzonk

Thank you for the cool guide. Unfortunately it did not work for me. "CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y" (it is not "..GO_ANY=y") and "CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y" were enabled already. I even tried mm-sources. No success.
I know there is something very strange going on with my notebook. I would be very glad if anybody had other ideas how to fix this for me.

Thanks again, ryszardzonk

jhr0771 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 90

I have and ARM computer with SiS 7018 and it worked with gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.1.
My only problem ( very weird ) is that the sound settings get reseted with every new song I play in XMMS or rhytmbox.
To make it work:
1) emerge -C alsa-driver, alsa-oss . I kept alsa-util and alsa-lib
2) activate the alsa stuff in the kernel as modules
3) reboot and it worked !

ryszardzonk · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 9:03 pm Post subject: hmmm

I have looked at your post again and there is not much more I can help in that matter. I am supprised that it doesnt work, sinse it was the easiest thing for me to set-up and that is basicly wat I did.
Of couse every computer is different and as many users there is there would be that many problems. Myself I am struggling with ACPI FAN & LM_sensors. It doesnt work for me...

I hope you find the solution
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R!tman · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 1:29 am Post subject:

Yeah, it might be my specific notebook. On my other PC it was very easy to set ALSA up, as you already said.
Regarding your ACPI problem: I had a problem with that too. The main reason was that my BIOS was too old. I solved the problem with simply adding

Smoka · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 4

Had the same Problem.

Could only solve it by choosing an other Kernel (Vanilla 2.6.2).
Used the same .config and it simply worked.

R!tman · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 2:11 pm Post subject:

I haven't found your sources in portage. Only vanilla 2.4.24, vanilla prepatch 2.4.25 and vanilla tiny sources 2.6.2 (masked). Did you install the tiny sources?

R!tman · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 10:40 am Post subject:

Maybe this helps tracking down the problem:

R!tman · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 12:33 pm Post subject:

I think I have come a bit closer. In my opinion ACPI is somehow messing around with the PCI IRQ routing. Adding

R!tman · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:19 pm Post subject:

It works flawlessly with mm-sources-2.6.4-r1

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But now bootsplash does not work

. [edit]And PCMCIA does not seem to work to.[\edit]

I think I will have to wait for gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.4.