On Monday 16 June 2008 20:27, stan wrote: > 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. Hi Stan. I don't want to check the BIOS at the mo, as I'm DL'ing a load of updates for F8 on this machine, but I'm pretty sure that the sounds are enabled. I wil check this though. I googled a bit for the NIC problem with the MCP61 chipset, and did see someones lspci listing Ethernet against a MCP61 entry, but I have no such entry. Anyway, a possible fix for the sounds would be nice. > > > 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? Yes I saw that. When the updates for F8 have finished, I'll DL, and install the latest driver > > 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? Don't get anything from any of them, just returned to the command prompt > > > 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? Yes. lsmod had no alsa stuff loaded after bootup. I modprobed snd-hda-intel, and the alsa modules were loaded, but cat /proc/asound/cards showed "no soundcards" > > > 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
