Stan S wrote: > > Last year, when I found the distro sidux, I had no sound after > installing sidux. It took some study, effort and requests for help to > get sound working. I'm no expert in Linux but I got sound working in > sidux. > > I still have the same computer that had sidux as OS. But due to a > recent problem with my current and new ISP having a problem dealing > with apt-get, I lost the old version of sidux and was forced to > install the latest version of sidux. I again have no sound. I > downloaded and installed the various alsa packages (driver, lib, and > utils, all being version 1.0.19) but I must have done something wrong > over the past few days while I continued to try to figure out why > sound was absent even though I knew the hardware was OK. > > I've checked the usual things, such as looking at what's muted in kmix > and making sure that sound is enabled in K > Control Ctr > Sound & > Multimedia > Sound System. I ran alsaconf which didn't help. > [**Incidentally, alsaconf which did show my sound electronics a few > days ago, now doesn't even show my Intel integrated sound > electronics!** I thought the bios had been changed but see that sound > is enabled and PnP is too.] [alsaconf has also vanished from the K menu.] > > /etc/modprobe.d/sound is also now missing. How is that restored? > > Here's some command outputs that might help you help me. If you need > any other outputs, please tell me. > > $ lsmod | grep snd > snd_intel8x0 28856 1 > snd_ac97_codec 102144 1 snd_intel8x0 > ac97_bus 1532 1 snd_ac97_codec > snd_pcm_oss 37696 0 > snd_mixer_oss 14620 1 snd_pcm_oss > snd_pcm 73888 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss > snd_seq_oss 31296 0 > snd_seq_midi_event 6876 1 snd_seq_oss > snd_seq 50288 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event > snd_timer 20580 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq > snd_seq_device 7016 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq > snd 56420 11 > snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device > soundcore 7136 1 snd > snd_page_alloc 8868 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm > > [end of output from lsmod | grep snd ] > > sound info part from the output of lspci -vv: > > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM > (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) > Subsystem: IBM Device 1f00 > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- > Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- > Latency: 0 > Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 17 > Region 0: I/O ports at 6000 [size=256] > Region 1: I/O ports at 6400 [size=64] > Region 2: Memory at 80200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] > Region 3: Memory at 80200400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] > Capabilities: <access denied> > Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH > > [end of output] > > With the alsa packages in /usr/src/alsa, I ran these to install the 3 > downloaded alsa packages: > > bunzip2 alsa-driver-1.0.19.tar.bz2 > tar -xf alsa-driver-1.0.19.tar > cd alsa-driver-1.0.19 > ./configure --with-cards=intel8x0 --with-sequencer=yes ; make ; make > install > > > chmod a+rw /dev/dsp /dev/mixer /dev/sequencer > > > bunzip2 alsa-lib-1.0.19.tar.bz2 > tar -xf alsa-lib-1.0.19.tar > cd alsa-lib-1.0.19 > ./configure ; make ; make install > > > bunzip2 alsa-utils-1.0.19.tar.bz2 > tar -xf alsa-utils-1.0.19.tar > cd alsa-utils-1.0.19 > ./configure ; make ; make install > > > modprobe snd-intel8x0 ; modprobe snd-pcm-oss ; modprobe snd-mixer-oss > ; modprobe snd-seq-oss > > [End of what I ran.] > > I don't know if other alsa packages (base, tools) hold the answer to > this problem, and I don't know if something that recognizes hardware > and what modules are installed is somehow screwed up now. > > Thanks, > > Stan > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Without music life would be a mistake. > > - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900) > > > Music is another planet. > > - Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897; French novelist) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are > powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. 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Perhaps they only got moved to /usr/sbin/ If all this does not show any success, then try to run "alsamixer" and play around with the switches. I hope, I was able to help you, Philipp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
