Intel8x0 error message

WeirDave · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:54 am Post subject: Intel8x0 error message

I get an error message when booting that says that it can't locate the driver snd_intel8x0 but when I finally get into KDE I have sound. Any suggestions?
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donjuan · l33t Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 760 Location: At Uni

You probably both built the driver into your kernel and are trying to load some other driver. If you're trying to use alsa and you have the driver compiled into your kernel all you needed to do was

WeirDave · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:30 pm Post subject:

donjuan · l33t Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 760 Location: At Uni

My assumption here is that you have built the sound driver into your kernel, and you are not using modules. Am I correct?
If I am then I think I'm on the right track to fixing your problem. Then the answer to your next question is no, you don't need to add ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0". The one thing I'm not sure of is if arts uses its own drivers somehow. I don't think it does.
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WeirDave · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:48 pm Post subject:

donjuan · l33t Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 760 Location: At Uni

I guess I need to know what you did to try to get sound working before I started helping you.
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nenn · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:47 pm Post subject:

the ALSA_CARDS flag is only used (to my knowledge) when compiling alsa-drivers from the portage tree but from that error message its possible you have alsa installed (somehow , it wont install if you have ALSA even mentioned in the kernel .config file) and since the proper driver are in the kernel they then fail to load because its looking for modules, my suggestion check out this file "/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-X.X" (where X.X is the kernel youre using, example im using 2.6.10 so mine is kernel-2.6) and remove the lines where the drivers are being loaded, if the arent in there, you are going to have to remove alsasound from boot (although this doesnt seem like a good idea but im not too sure so someone please correct me if i am wrong) using "rc-update del alsasound" and if you are still worried about no sound, kill your X server and run mplayer or mpg123 or any type of mp3 player on the command line and if it works you have the drivers in your kernel already. i hope this makes sence, im really tired

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WeirDave · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:58 pm Post subject:

Morimando · Guru Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 339 Location: Germany

just cd to

Cintra · Advocate Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 2111 Location: Norway

OR, if you do have a <*> as mentioned in the above post you have sound 'built-in and all you have to do is stop the error message by putting a hash (#) in front of the last line of the following code found in /etc/modules.d/alsa..

WeirDave · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:57 pm Post subject:

Cintra · Advocate Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 2111 Location: Norway

No.
thats what I've been running with since choosing built-in sound drivers some time ago..
the built-in driver in 2.6.11 is at version 1.08 for others who may wonder.
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Morimando · Guru Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 339 Location: Germany

yeah you're right it's easier that way, so he doesn't need a kernel-rebuild.
I didn't think of that possibility as i rebuild my kernel nearly every day during the last week

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WeirDave · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:43 pm Post subject:

Nicholas.Walker · n00b Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 16 Location: Canada

I had a similar thing with the error messages saying that module snd_timer or snd_pcm or snd_ac97 had an unknown symbol in the module or unknonwn parameter. I did try the suggested fixes for built-in drivers but I still cannot get my sound to work. I did manage to get esound working for a short time so I know the signal paths are working but I can't get any sound from xine or xmms.

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WeirDave · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject:

Morimando · Guru Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 339 Location: Germany

built in as module, did make && make modules_install, alsa-utils emerged, lines uncommented, alsasound in default runlevel?
Should work.. btw.: i experienced some problem having alsasound in boot runlevel, so try default
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WeirDave · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:53 pm Post subject:

Morimando · Guru Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 339 Location: Germany

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Nicholas.Walker · n00b Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 16 Location: Canada

I did ACCEPT_KEYWORD="~x86" emerge xmms xmms-alsa.
with blackbox or any other wm besides enlightenment it says that it can't find alsa-1.2.0
The modules load with no error at boot up but I have no sound with xmms, mpg123 or xmcd

I'm completely confused.

lsmod still only lists nvidia and tg3 (my ethernet card)
it doesn't list alsa or anything to do with sound

rc-update -s lists alsasound loading at boot
the hardware is fine and the computer knows it is there. there seems to be a jam in the software somewhere.

I went back to the kernel and this time under device drivers --> sound I compiled Sound Card Support as M and ALSA as M I then went in and under PCI devices compiled the driver for the AC97 sound card.

after copying the new kernel over and rebooting all ALSA modules load without error and lsmod now lists snd_seq_device and snd_mixer_oss, as well as nvidia and tg3 but still no mention of the alsa sound card

modules-update doesn't help the issue at all.

in the boot messages it says that snd-card-0 which is aliased to snd-intel8x0 loaded fine

when i run xmms with a test mp3 it says failed to open audio output: ALSA 1.2.10 output plugin

WeirDave · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 12:40 am Post subject:

Sheepdogj15 · Guru Joined: 07 Jan 2005 Posts: 430 Location: Backyard

WeirDave, When you are not in X (KDE), at the bash prompt, type "amixer". let us know if you get any output, as that will tell us if the kernel itself is loading the driver and detecting the hardware. also:

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