On Tuesday 18 September 2007 21:58, Daniel D Jones wrote: > On Tuesday 18 September 2007 09:15:17 Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 September 2007 13:17, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > Freshly installed system running Gentoo AMD64. System was previously a > > > Windows box, and sound worked without issue prior to the reformat. No > > > motherboard jumpers etc. changed. Asus K8V Deluxe motherboard with > > > Via VT837 integrated audio. I have Alsa and the Via driver compiled > > > into the kernel. > > > > > > localhost ddjones # cat /proc/asound/version > > > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14 (Thu May 31 > > > 09:03:25 2007 UTC). > > > > > > > > > localhost ddjones # cat /proc/asound/cards > > > 0 [V8237 ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237 > > > VIA 8237 with AD1980 at 0xc800, irq 22 > > > > > > > > > I get no sound from the system at all. No system sounds, nothing from > > > any media player, just silence. > > > > > > alsaconf says that there is no supported PnP or PCI card found. > > > AlsaMixer shows the VIA 8237 card. Everything is turned up - nothing > > > muted. KDE Control Center says that it can't start the sound system. > > > > > > Everything seems to be in place and detected. I have no idea where to > > > go from here. Hints and suggestions greatly appreciated. > > > > I probably can't help much, but when you compiled the kernel did you > > enable oss emulation? (I believe it needs to be as a module). You should > > see in lsmod the following amongst the other snd modules. > > snd_pcm_oss > > snd_mixer_oss > > snd_seq_oss > > > > Would you post the output of. lsmod | grep snd . It may be helpfull to > > others reading this thread. While your in lsmod check to see if a module > > named "soundcore" is loaded. > > I had everything compiled into the kernel. I've done this in the past > without issue. Another post here mentioned the troubleshooting wiki, which > I had not seen before. I searched it out and it strongly recommends > compiling the sound system as modules, so I recompiled my kernel. > Following a reboot, here's the lsmod: > > ddjones@ /mnt $ lsmod | grep snd > snd_pcm_oss 41568 0 > snd_mixer_oss 16832 1 snd_pcm_oss > snd_seq_oss 31232 0 > snd_seq_midi_event 8896 1 snd_seq_oss > snd_seq 50144 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event > snd_via82xx 25824 0 > snd_ac97_codec 109336 1 snd_via82xx > snd_pcm 74760 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec > snd_timer 21576 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm > snd_page_alloc 10000 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm > snd_mpu401_uart 9408 1 snd_via82xx > snd_rawmidi 22816 1 snd_mpu401_uart > snd_seq_device 8336 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi > snd 52136 11 > snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,sn >d_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device ac97_bus > 4864 1 snd_ac97_codec > > I don't see a "soundcore" module. You need to look at the complete lsmod listing to see the soundcore module if it's installed, or do a modinfo soundcore on the CLI to see if it's available in the kernel. Well having booted my Gentoo install I see there is no soundcore module, and sound is working ok. The module is loaded on my Debian, and Fedora installs, and I'd always thought it was necessary. Obviously wrong as far as Gentoo is concerned. > > alsaconf now detects the sound card and says that it's configuring it for > use. I hear some popping from the speakers when it does this, or when I > restart /etc/init.d/alsasound. After that, everything is the same. No > sound at all. KDE Control Center still says that it can't initialize the > sound system. KPlayer appears to play an MP3 but there's no sound output. > Kaffiene errors out with the error "All Audio Drivers Failed to > Initialize." Personally I'm clutching at straws, but I presume you are a member of the audio group (permissions problems perhaps). I know it's frowned upon, but when suspecting permissions problems, I have logged into KDE as root, and tried out the audio stuff. This at least verifies if permissions are getting in the way. I also found on Google a problem with an earlier version of the card, same mobo, and while Googling AD1980, but it's ancient, and from 2004. See below, but I don't believe it's your problem. http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/suse-linux-help/15008-k8v-se-deluxe-adi-ad-1980-soundmax-not-working-suse-9-1-a.html I don't know how old your mobo is, but if it's very new, it may be worth compiling the kernel using the latest Alsa driver. See below. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/alsa/snapshot/driver/ When you unpack the tarball, there's some usefull stuff for the Via card in Alsa-configuration.txt. Path in the unpacked directory is. alsa-kernel > Documentation Sorry I can't give more help on your problem. Perhaps someone else more clued up will assist. All the best, and may the force be with you. 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