Nigel Henry wrote: > I've just built a new machine, and expected problems with the onboard > soundcard, and also have problems with the onboard NIC, but that's another > problem, which is resolved by installing my last remaining realtek 8139 PCI > card. > Is the sound device enabled in BIOS? And I'm surprised that your NIC isn't working. Those are almost generic these days. > Anyway the mobo is an Asus M2N-X Plus NVIDIA GeForce 6100/nForce 430, and the > Southbridge (which appears to handle allsorts of stuff) is MCP61. > > the specs for the soundcard from the Asus site are below. > ALC662 6-Channel High Definition Audio Azalia CODEC > Support Jack-Sensing, Enumeration, Multi-streaming > S/PDIF out on back I/O port > Did a search in the driver source and the azalia is mentioned in the hda-intel.c module. Using hg snapshot of 20080520. > This is using the Fedora 8 distro, which has alsa driver 1.0.15, and is > probably a bit old. > Yeah, probably a good idea to upgrade this. Did you notice that jaroslav had just posted the 1.0.17rc2 link? http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.17rc1_v1.0.17rc2 > The card is not detected at bootup, but I did a modprobe snd-hda-intel, using > various model options. the modules were loaded, but a cat /proc/asound/cards > showed "no soundcards detected" > If you do a search in the dmesg output for intel or hda or snd or alsa or azalia does anything turn up? > I don't want to waste too much time on this onboard card, and will probably > buy a cheap well supported card, just to get some sounds on this new machine. > All the same I've run the alsa-info.sh script, and the link is below. > > http://pastebin.ca/1048647 The modules showing here are not from bootup, but are manually installed? > > Any comments, as always welcome. > > Btw: My other machines use Audigy2 soundblaster (emu10k1) on the first > machine, and Ensoniq (ens1371) on the other machine, and no problems with > these cards at all. I cannot repeat my opinions/thoughts about hda-intel > cards. > > Thanks for all your work you folks. > > Nigel. > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
