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zasdarq
04-29-2004, 09:16 PM
Hello,

I was about to post my problem until I noticed this, which is very similar to mine, so I figured maybe the smart ones can help both of us at the same time :)

I have a MSI nForce 2 Chipset mobo with onboard sound (its the K7N2 Delta). I'm also trying to use the coaxial output to get sound. Note: The coaxial output was added using the "S-Bracket" which did not come with the motherboard but I had left over from a previous MSI K-line motherboard. I installed it as according to the mobo's instructions. My distro is Red Hat 9.

What I've tried:

-It does auto detect something for sound:
Model: nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler
Module: i810_audio
But the test sound doens't work and I'm obviously not getting sound elsewhere.

-Updating the nForce Drivers. Followed the instructions, but didnt help any. In fact, it didnt do any "noticeable" changes at all, so I'm not entirely sure if it worked. Anyone know how to check that?

-Attempted the ALSA installation. I've done this twice now, and I think i finally isolated why it isn't working. I can't believe i missed it the first time around. While adding the modules to the kernel, it gives me the error message:

.../sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: init_module: no such device

Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorret module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters

you may find more infromation in syslog or the output from dmesg

So I did as they said, and checked dmesg. In there, I found:

Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 17:57:00 Apr 13 2004
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:06.0 to 64
i810: NVIDIA nForce Audio found at IO 0xd800 and 0xd400, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 11
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: ALG96 (Unknown)
i810_audio: only 48Khz playback available.
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 Unable to map surround DAC's (or DAC's not present), total channels =
2
ad1816: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
ad1816: dma, dma2, irq and io must be set.
ad1816: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
ad1816: dma, dma2, irq and io must be set.
ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
ad1848: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
Intel ICH soundcard not found or device busy
Intel ICH soundcard not found or device busy
Intel ICH soundcard not found or device busy

So apparantly I don't have a intel soundcard that is being detected (but isn't that what i810_audio is?). Which explains why the commands:

modprobe snd-intel8x0;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss

don't work when installing alsa!

If you got this far through my longwinded post, thank you! I also, before noticing that rather large error, attempted to add the changes to the two files the ALSA site suggests (i forget the name of them now), but I think that those aren't the issue anyway so i won't go too far into it. I also attempted to garner some information from a previous post on this, but had troubles applying any of it to me.

Ok, I hope some of what I did / learned is useful / helpful to solving this problem. Philtesone, if you feel that I am attempting to hijack your post, sorry! I'll repost in my own thread if you want. I just didn't want to double up on similar questions, and I was hoping my efforts would help you perhaps.

Thanks in advance for any advice,
Matthew

zasdarq
04-29-2004, 10:07 PM
Sorry! One more thing: Along the same lines as my sound card not being found, I couldn't actually install the driver! The command is...

bunzip2 alsa-driver-xxx
tar -xf alsa-driver-xxx
cd alsa-driver-xxx
./configure --with-cards=intel8x0 --with-sequencer=yes;make;make install

and there is that intel8x0 that doesnt' exist again? I assume I have to replace that with somethign else...my sound card...but how do I kno what it is called?

Thanks,
Matthew

hard candy
04-29-2004, 10:08 PM
zasdarq, I would try "lspci" first and see what the audio chip readout is. Then double check the bios and make sure the audio is turned on. You seem to have the correct module for nforce audio.

mdwatts
05-01-2004, 10:01 AM
Originally posted by zasdarq

I was about to post my problem until I noticed this, which is very similar to mine, so I figured maybe the smart ones can help both of us at the same time :)


It is not the same problem as the other is on enabling SPDIF. Hijacking threads that the original problem has still to be resolved is not very fair for the member that posted the thread.

Split into a new one...