No sound on Gentoo 2006.0

dinolinux · 04-26-2006, 12:19 PM

Hi

I installed Gentoo, but I haven't got any sound

. I tried installing every ALSA utility in Portage, with no luck. I tried setting up sound like the Gentoo docs said, which didn't work. The driver is compiled into the kernel. The weird thing is that it looks like sound it working, sound can be adjusted in alsamixer, I can turn the device on in alsaconf, but I can't hear anything. The card is a SiS AC'97 and uses the snd-intel8x0 driver.

geeman2.0 · 04-27-2006, 08:58 AM

Have you tried raising every volume channel and making sure none of the important ones are muted?

dinolinux · 04-29-2006, 01:16 PM

Yes. Now I even tried compiling a new kernel. _STILL_ no sound :'(

Penguin of Wonder · 04-30-2006, 11:22 PM

Not to insult anyone's intelligence, but are your speakers plugged in properly, are they turned on and turned up?

dinolinux · 05-01-2006, 01:38 PM

Yes. Sound works perfectly on other distro's

justanothersteve · 05-01-2006, 03:45 PM

Do you have ALSA support compiled into the kernel? Also, do you have the *correct* AC 97 driver compiled in? I ask the second one because my laptop runs an intel chipset so for its AC 97 I have to use intel8x0 driver BUT my server uses a via chipset so for its AC 97 I have to use the Via VT8XXX driver. Verify your chipset with lspci

Here is mine:

Code:

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

The second from last line gave me insight for which driver to look for. Hope this helps

dinolinux · 05-01-2006, 04:33 PM

Code:

# lspci
pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 645xx (rev 51)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS AGP Port (virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

Doesn't exactly tell me what driver to look for

Emerson · 05-01-2006, 04:52 PM

Intel/SiS/nVidia/AMD/ALi AC97 Controller SND_INTEL8X0

Penguin of Wonder · 05-01-2006, 05:59 PM

Quote:

00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)

That was the line you were looking for. You have an SiS card built into your motherboard. It looks like Emerson has already told you what you need to recompile into your kernel if you haven't already.

dinolinux · 05-04-2006, 09:03 AM

Well, that's the problem

The driver is loaded, but no sound

Emerson · 05-04-2006, 09:33 AM

Did you read and follow Gentoo ALSA Guide?

dinolinux · 05-04-2006, 11:22 AM

Yep, it was the first thing I tried

IceChant · 05-04-2006, 03:45 PM

I had same problem followed the ALSA guid in the Gentoo site that's what I did that helped:
1) go to /etc/make.conf and add

Code:

ALSA_CARDS="SND_INTEL8X0"

2) emerge alsa-utils
3) rc-update add alsasound boot
4) /etc/init.d/alsasound start
5) alsamixer
6) in alsamixer Master and PCM might be muted unmute them by pressing "m".
7) set the vol lvl in Master and PCM and whatever you need more.
It should work now try xmms or any other program but make sure they set to use alsa (need to set it in xmms as I know).

Justin2021 · 05-22-2006, 07:38 PM

You saved my life IceChant

Thx!

J3N7iL · 06-16-2006, 12:30 AM

IceChant -
I thank you to, adding the driver tag to the make.conf fixed my sound issues as well