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KWhat
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 Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:55 pm Post subject: Dell GX620 ALSA: No Sound Cards Found [Solved] |
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Lets start with what i have.
| Code: | 00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01ad
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 23
Region 0: I/O ports at ec00 [size=256]
Region 1: I/O ports at e8c0 [size=64]
Region 2: Memory at feabfa00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Region 3: Memory at feabf900 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
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I have installed alsa-lib alsa-driver alsa-oss alsa-utils and setup the kernel to uses the external drivers.
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# alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
#cat /proc/asound/cards
--- no soundcards ---
# /etc/init.d/alsasound restart
* Loading ALSA modules ...
* Loading: snd-card-0 ... [ ok ]
* Loading: snd-seq-oss ... [ ok ]
* Loading: snd-pcm-oss ... [ ok ]
* ERROR: Failed to load necessary drivers [ ok ]
* Restoring Mixer Levels ...
* No mixer config in /etc/asound.state, you have to unmute your card! [ ok ]
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dmsg has absolutely nothing about the sound card or the error:
| Code: | tux # dmesg | grep hda_
tux # dmesg | grep error
tux # dmesg | grep sound
tux # dmesg | grep alsa
tux # dmesg | grep intel
tux # dmesg | grep poopoo
tux # dmesg | grep snd
tux # dmesg | grep err
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
oprofile: using NMI interrupt.
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Conf files for alsa are stock:
| Code: | # ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
# module options should go here
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
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The sound car is just MIA. Ideas?
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tekknokrat
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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what does alsaconfig says?
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KWhat
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| No supported PnP or PCI card found. Would you like to probe legacy ISA cards/chips? |
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Ariem
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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i'm having the same problem...
any solution? |
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KWhat
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:45 am Post subject: |
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Dont buy dell =P
I read somewhere that with the 2.6.12 kernel just enabling alsa in the kernel seemed to work fine... I am using the most recent version of ALSA so that could be the issue. |
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pilla
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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My desktop is a GX620, and it uses the snd_intel8x0. Pretty vanilla, set ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" and emerge alsa-drivers.
There's also the Gentoo ALSA Guide that explains the whole install process.
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Ariem
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| i solved my problem by updating the baselayout... |
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tekknokrat
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:54 am Post subject: |
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would you mind adding this as tips & tricks to alsa wiki?
Is it worth a solution or was your baselayout only extraordinary old?
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Ariem
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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| tekknokrat wrote: | would you mind adding this as tips & tricks to alsa wiki?
Is it worth a solution or was your baselayout only extraordinary old? |
i had just installed gentoo 2006.1, so I'd assume that the baselayout wasn't that old.. but wasn't the current stable.
Don't know if it is worth to add this to Tips & Tricks.. (i assume you mean in gentoo wiki..) but i can add a line, no problem! |
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pilla
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Ariem wrote: |
Don't know if it is worth to add this to Tips & Tricks.. (i assume you mean in gentoo wiki..) but i can add a line, no problem! |
I'm not sure it's worth, unless more people have the same problem and solved it in the same way.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Ok here is the solution. This problem doesn't appear to be with the baselayout but with http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc matrix. If you lookup the specs for the ICH7 Family it says to use the hda-intel sound drivers but apparently for this model we still need to use the ICH6 intel8x0 drivers. I am not sure if this Dell is setup on some strange variant of the ICH7 or if the alsa docs are incorrect but either way the solution works. |
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pilla
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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I hardly can believe that Dell has the power of providing an ICH7 different from what they can get from Intel.... so it isn't their fault. Probably, the driver matrix is wrong (their site isn't working right now, so I can't say for sure).
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