only static no sound in xawtv

[adityavpratap]

Hi,
I had to recently reinstall Slackware 10.1 on my system. Then I installed kernel 2.6.16.
Now my problem is that there is no audio output in xawtv except static (white noise). However the picture output is proper.
Here is the output of lsmod -

Module Size Used by
rtc 10300 -
i2c_sis96x 4812 -
tuner 53460 -
tda9887 16312 -
bttv 168980 -
video_buf 17068 -
i2c_algo_bit 8720 -
btcx_risc 3952 -
ir_common 8044 -
tveeprom 13816 -
i2c_core 16776 -

and the output of lspci -
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 651 Host (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge
(AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS962 [MuTIOL Media IO] (
rev 25)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0016
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Con
troller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (re
v 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (re v 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: MYSON Technology Inc SURECOM EP-320X-S 100/10M Eth ernet PCI Adapter
00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
00:0b.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 1 1)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/813 9C+ (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/74 0 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter

I have been struggling with this problem for the past couple of days without success.
Any suggestions?
Aditya Pratap V.

[hard candy]

Doesn't look like a module driver is loaded for the audio, try "modprobe snd-intel8x0m", and see what happens.
There are some other drivers listed here:ALSA (http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendor-SiS#matrix)

Maybe also try "alsaconfig" as "su" or root, it may be able to configure it automagickally.

[janne_oksanen]

Does your card have audio out jack? Are you trying to get sound out of your sound card or the tuner card?

[adityavpratap]

Hi,
hard candy > sudo /sbin/modprobe snd-intel8x0m gives the following output -
FATAL: Module snd_intel8x0m not found
so what do I do now?

[hard candy]

How about "alsaconfig"?
It that doesn't work as well, ALSA module configuration (http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=SiS&card=SiS+745.&chip=SI7013&module=intel8x0m) But first make sure that is the correct driver, I was guessing that you had a specific audio chip.

[adityavpratap]

Xawtv is working fine in PCLinuxOS - my other linux distribution running on the same PC.
What important information can I extract from PCLinuxOS and from which specific config files.
Alsaconf doesn't detect my sound card.
However there is no problem with any other audio programme like xine, xmms, etc. Problem is only with xawtv / tvtime.