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Description: Most of the Intel i810 motherboards, as well as other systems (listed below), come with a 'soundcard' built-in. This is known as an AC'97 analog sound device (I've noticed that recent MS Winblows drivers have actually called it SoundMAX, but Intel still refers to it as the AC'97). From Intel's website: "Audio Codec '97 (AC '97) defines a high-quality, 20-bit audio architecture for the PC that is used in the majority of today's desktop platforms."

List of devices using the AC'97 soundsystem
Intel 440MX Chipset (82443MX)
Intel 810 Chipset (ICH)
Intel 810E Chipset (ICH)
Intel 810E2 Chipset (ICH2)
Intel 815 Chipset (ICH)
Intel 815E Chipsets (ICH2)
Intel 815EG Chipset (ICH2)
Intel 815EP Chipset (ICH2)
Intel 815G Chipset (ICH)
Intel 815P Chipset (ICH)
Intel 820 Chipset (ICH)
Intel 820E Chipset (ICH2)
Intel 830MP Chipset (ICH3-M)
Intel 840 Chipset (ICH)
Intel 845 Chipset (ICH2)
Intel 845E Chipset (ICH4)
Intel 845G Chipset (ICH4)
Intel 845GL Chipset (ICH4)
Intel 850 Chipset (ICH2)
Intel 850E Chipset (ICH2)
Intel 860 Chipset (ICH2)
Intel E7500 Chipset (ICH3)
Intel E7500 Chipset (ICH3-S)
NVIDIA nForce (MCP)
NVIDIA nForce 2 (MCP2)
SiS 735 Chipset (SiS 7012)

The AC'97, or forms of it, also may apper in:
AMD 8111
AMD 768
NVIDIA nForce 3 (MCP3)
SiS 633 Chipset (SiS 7012)
SiS 635 Chipset (SiS 7012)
SiS 635T Chipset (SiS 7012)
SiS 733 Chipset (SiS 7012)
SiS 645 Chipset (SiS 7012)
SiS 645DX Chipset (SiS 7012)
SiS 645/961 Chipset (SiS 7012)
SiS 650/961 Chipset (SiS 7012)
SiS 740 Chipset (SiS 7012)
SiS 740/961 Chipset (SiS 7012)
SiS 745 Chipset (SiS 7012)
Keywords: ac97 i810 nVidia
/sbin/lspci output: 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
Chipset: i810
Connection Type: built-in to motherboard/PCI


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Old 12-01-2003, 06:42 PM   #1
smith847be
 
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Driver is in the kernel package, but without that (such as with ALSA, etc.) it can be argumental. Just install from the kernel and you're good to go.
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Old 02-23-2004, 01:38 PM   #2
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Using RH9 (RH 7.3, RH 8) with the following. Sound works okay.

SoundMAX Digital 82801DB AC (Intel), graphics (Intel 82845G/GL)
Sound Cards = 82801DB AC (Intel)
Driver i810_audio
Intel® 845GL chipset w/Intel® Extreme Graphics
Intel® 82801DB I/O Controller Hub 4 (ICH4)
AC97

PC=Compaq Presario 8000T (8LSXE1) (07E8h)
Bus 533 Megahertz, P4 2.26GHZ
BIOS Compaq 68602 v1/08 05/28/2002
Modem changed to US Robotics V.92 Model 5610B
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Old 03-10-2004, 10:51 AM   #3
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This card does no hardware mixing so you're at the mercy of your software. OSS drivers work just fine but arts or esd is necesssary to play more than one sound at a time. ALSA works fine but currently (V 1.02c) there are some bugs in the intel implementation. If your playing a video in mplayer and it plays back too fast (chipmonk style) then use the OSS emulation and that will fix it up.
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Old 03-14-2004, 09:20 PM   #4
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Worked automatically with kernel but if you want to ge the best out of it activate ALSA and also the xmms plugin.
Mandrake Users:
urpmi alsa
urpmi xmms-alsa
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Old 05-23-2004, 07:48 AM   #5
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Sound is not so bad, but as someone pointed out, no hardware mixing...
Sad.
Instead of using the slow 'artsd' and 'esd', prefer and alsa provided program:
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Nvidia&card=nForce&chip=NM2360&module=intel8x0

It works out ok.
Hopethis helps.
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Old 06-06-2004, 04:43 AM   #6
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Will not work for me.
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Old 06-25-2004, 08:07 PM   #7
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Easily detected by my kernel and alsa. Unfortunatly I haven't gotten it to accept multiple audio sources yet. This means no quake with xmms :(.
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Old 06-28-2004, 12:55 AM   #8
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kmix crashes on startup and then i have no sound i have a toshiba 1900-000fs laptop any one encounter a problem like this and does anyone know the fix?mandrake tool identifies my soundcard as an intel 810
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Old 07-14-2004, 05:14 AM   #9
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I could not manage to setup sound.

The message log is the following:

Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.22, 13:45:06 Sep 4 2002
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH4 found at IO 0xe080 and 0xe400, IRQ 11
i810_audio: Codec not ready.. wait.. no response.
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Primary codec not ready.
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Old 07-15-2004, 07:39 PM   #10
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Didn't work out of the box. Had to build support for it into the kernel, install alsa, disable artsd, then it worked fine.
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Old 07-16-2004, 05:22 PM   #11
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Detected and automatically installed in these distributions:

Slackware 10
Mandrake 9.2
Fedora Core 1

In Fedora and Slackware, the volume was muted to begin with, but you just have to raise it with KMix or another mixer.
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Old 07-29-2004, 12:29 PM   #12
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I always see that an i810 sound card works, and I have it working on my Slackware 10, but why do I always see that?

i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.

Is it possible to have a 5.1 sound using an Intel sound card?
I would love to have my 5.1 speakers playing all in my Linux box.

Some idea?
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Old 09-09-2004, 09:25 PM   #13
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In reply to the last persons comment about 5.1,

I would highly recommend getting alsa ... and then using the alsamixer.

the i810 chip (well at least mine Nforce2) has output that need to be configured ie the line in mic becomes the rear surround output..

btw if you were looking for a windoze 98 driver for this board, real-tek ac97 drivers seem to work well on my computer..

Gary
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Old 10-20-2004, 03:36 AM   #14
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I have used this card on kernel versions 2.4 and 2.6. Never had problems configuring it either.

Direct support in the kernel itself. U can choose between Alsa and OSS... U can even emulate OSS despite using ALSA. And the sound quality got better with the release of the 2.6 kernel. No probs whatsoever.

Siddhesh Poyarekar
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Old 12-31-2004, 09:56 PM   #15
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Hi, I'm new on LInux. I have run the test for the sound, I can't get any. The description I got for my sound card is AC 97. I looked in the previous post, I don't quite understand. Can anyone help me out with easy follow instructions for newbies? Thanks
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Old 01-11-2005, 11:16 PM   #16
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worked out of the box, and also after kernel stripped of sound drivers and Alsa built.
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Old 06-29-2005, 05:07 PM   #17
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Works great with the associated kernel modules, i810_audio and ac97_codec. I have issues with the alsa driver that came with Slackware 10.0: nothing comes out of the sound outputs. Not really wanting to rebuild alsa, I just made /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa un-executable and un-blacklisted the i810_audio module. I use OSS for all sound, and everything works fine.
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Old 06-13-2006, 08:32 AM   #18
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Worked out the box on Slackware 10.2, just had to unmute with alsamixer.
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