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I googled and searched these forums for solutions to my problem, but I only found similar problems that did not solve mine. When I run alsaconf, it tells me no PnP or PCI cards were found. So I tell it to probe legacy chips, it does its thing, says ok, I press enter, and sound still doesn't work.
apt-get install alsa-base alsa-oss alsa-utils
if you use a 2.6 kernel. If 2.4 apt-get alsa-drivers from the alsa-modules package as well, and get the version matching your kernel, but 2.6 has better hardware support.
Forgot to ask which distro your using though. Sarge?
Also try to set pnp off in the bios.
That chipset seems to be using the snd-azx module for alsa. See if you can load it with: modprobe snd-azx
then run alsaconf again. If it doesn't work, see with lsmod what snd- modules are loaded.
EDIT:
Sarge seems to use 1.0.8 alsa, but 1.0.9 would be better at detecting this chipset.
apt-get install alsa-source/testing
will get you a newer source, read the documentation within on how to compile and install.
Hope you have at least two kernels before experimenting with this one
You can try different modules:
modprobe snd-intel8x0
modprobe snd-pcm-oss
modprobe snd-mixer-oss
modprobe snd-seq-oss
Then test sound with: play /path/to/some-mp3_or_ogg
or why not with: cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp (ctrl-c quits)
If it won't work try:
rmmod snd-intel8x0
modprobe snd-hda-intel
Whenever I try to modprobe any of the cards you listed, I get,
FATAL: Module *something* not found.
FATAL: Error running install command for *something*
# rmmod snd-intel8x0
ERROR: Module snd_intel8x0 does not exist in /proc/modules
tried compiling ALSA, but when i do ./configure --with-cards=azx, it gives me:
checking for which soundcards to compile driver for... configure: error: Unknown soundcard azx
I tried compiling with other cards, but it gives me the same error. I finaly tried compiling with cards=all, but when I modprobed, it still gave me the same error (FATAL: Module *something* not found.
FATAL: Error running install command for *something*)
You shouldn't have to compile alsa. If you have installed the alsa packages listed above with apt, that should be all you need. FYI the switch would be --with-cards=snd_azx.
Maybe you don't have support for alsa in your kernel. Did you compile it yourself or are you using a prebuilt kernel image?
Look in /boot for a file named something like .config
Then post the out put of (change .config to whatever your config file is):
--with-cards=snd_azx still gives configure: error: Unknown soundcard azx
I used the prebuilt kernel image 2.6.8-2-386
cat /boot/config-2.6.8-2-386 | grep alsa, and cat /boot/.config | grep alsa, both return nothing
EDIT: this might help,
whenever I run alsaconf, it outputs this into the terminal:
modinfo: could not find module snd
modinfo: could not find module snd
modinfo: could not find module snd
modinfo: could not find module snd-opl3sa2
modinfo: could not find module snd-cs4236
modinfo: could not find module snd-cs4232
modinfo: could not find module snd-cs4231
modinfo: could not find module snd-es18xx
modinfo: could not find module snd-es1688
modinfo: could not find module snd-sb16
modinfo: could not find module snd-sb8
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