No sound in linux?

Bert · 03-12-2002, 05:22 AM

Did you have a look at the messages given at boot time with

%dmesg

You know, the list of stuff it tells you before it gives you a shell login or graphical equivalent?
Does it say anything about setting mixer levels?

If not, how do you enable services to start at boot time on Mandrake ? There should be a small program. Anyone ?

Bert

nutshell · 03-12-2002, 05:32 AM

I used the 'dmesg' command, the output doens't say anything about the mixer level and stuff like that...

here's what it says:

Quote:

Linux version 2.4.8-26mdk (quintela@bi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Mandrake Linux 8.1 2.96-0.62mdk)) #1 Sun Sep 23 17:06:39 CEST 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e7000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fffdc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fffdc00 - 000000000ffffc00 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ffffc00 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe7000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 65533
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61437 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=305 devfs=mount quiet
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 596.923 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1189.47 BogoMIPS
Memory: 254872k/262132k available (1086k kernel code, 6872k reserved, 397k data, 712k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd983, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f6ae0
PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f0000:9e3c, dseg at 400
PnPBIOS: PNP0c02: request 0x4d0-0x4d2 ok
PnPBIOS: PNP0c02: request 0x8000-0x8040 ok
PnPBIOS: PNP0c02: request 0x7000-0x7010 ok
PnP: 15 devices detected total
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14)
Starting kswapd v1.8
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
devfs: v0.115 (20010827) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xfc000000, mapped to 0xd0800000, size 4096k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=3
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:03cd
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
block: queued sectors max/low 169069kB/56356kB, 512 slots per queue
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1460-0x1467, BIOS settings: hda

MA, hdb

io
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1468-0x146f, BIOS settings: hdc

MA, hdd

io
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 20, ATA DISK drive
hdc: _NEC DV-5700A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 39876480 sectors (20417 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
ide-floppy driver 0.97
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 >
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
ide-floppy driver 0.97
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 712k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d
Adding Swap: 457812k swap-space (priority -1)
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1
MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1
MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
ip_conntrack (2047 buckets, 16376 max)
ip_tables: (c)2000 Netfilter core team
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.18a
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:10.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:07.2
eth0: SMC1211TX EZCard 10/100 (RealTek RTL8139) at 0xd0c8e000, 00:04:e2:08:56:92, IRQ 9
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
ne2k-pci.c:v1.02 10/19/2000 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:11.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0d.0
eth1: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0x1440, IRQ 10, 52:54:05:FC:CF:00.
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.259 $ time 17:30:17 Sep 23 2001
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:10.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1400, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.251:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 4 ports detected
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 3
usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x4a9/0x1051) is not claimed by any active driver.
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1/4, assigned device number 4
usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0x4a9/0x2206) is not claimed by any active driver.
usb.c: registered new driver usblp
printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 0 alt 0
printer.c: v0.8:USB Printer Device Class driver
PnPBIOS: Parport found PNPBIOS PNP0401 at io=0378,0778 irq=7 dma=3
0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes
0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 8
0x378: readIntrThreshold is 8
0x378: PWord is 8 bits
0x378: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses
0x378: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x4b
0x378: ECP settings irq=7 dma=3
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 45e1.
PnPBIOS: Parport found PNPBIOS PNP0401 at io=0378,0778 irq=7 dma=3
0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes
0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 8
0x378: readIntrThreshold is 8
0x378: PWord is 8 bits
0x378: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses
0x378: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x4b
0x378: ECP settings irq=7 dma=3
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
devfs: devfs_register(): device already registered: "0"
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.15, 17:27:24 Sep 23 2001
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:11.0
emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 7 model 0x8031 found, IO at 0x1420-0x143f, IRQ 10
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7609 (SigmaTel STAC9721/23)

Bert · 03-12-2002, 05:48 AM

Hmm. Well, one thing is for sure, you're sharing the sound IRQ 10 with your ethernet connection. If you can adjust the IRQ settings to 'automatic allocation' in the BIOS without the system specifying them then it may help.

The trouble is that some systems allocate IRQs independently in a rather ad hoc kinda way, like 'oh look! there's another device, give that one umm.. IRQ 7' etc. If the BIOS autoconfigures them, they can be prioritised better.

If your system does not allow you to do this in the BIOS setup, don't worry about it.

You already have a driver installed and running sound services on your system.

You need a mixer to raise you system's master sound levels. Of course, check the BIOS setup tool for this functionality too.

Is there anything after this:

PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:11.0
emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 7 model 0x8031 found, IO at 0x1420-0x143f, IRQ 10
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7609 (SigmaTel STAC9721/23)

?

Bert

nutshell · 03-12-2002, 08:08 PM

Man my BIOS doens't allow me to do anything with IRQ stuff. IN fact, there are so few options for me to configure in my BIOS.

No all thats in dmesg i've posted, no more after that line.

Is there anyway i can manually specify the IRQ settings for specific devices? Or any special programs?

thnx

Bert · 03-13-2002, 04:16 AM

I think the most important thing is to enable alsa at boot time and use a mixer to set the sound levels. Do you have a sound mixer program with Mandrake 8.1 ? (I'm sure you do).

If your BIOS doesn't allow you to allocate IRQs in the PCI section, don't worry about it.

I'd say we're 92.5% there.

Bert

Bert · 03-13-2002, 07:58 AM

Hey nutshell, have a look here for information on enabling programs at boot time.

Bert

nutshell · 03-14-2002, 08:01 PM

HI,

All i hav is Aumix. I tried unmuting it but theres still no sound.

Bert · 03-15-2002, 03:35 AM

ALSA / OSS modules are not enabled at boot time.
These services have to be started up at boot time.

Bert

nutshell · 03-15-2002, 04:18 AM

how do i enable modules at boot time?

thnx

And what are the exact names of the modules of alsa? WHat is OOS?

thnx sorry but i really don't know.

Bert · 03-15-2002, 04:42 AM

To tell the truth, I don't know how to set up services at boot time in Mandrake. Look through your documentation and the documentation provided with the driver. Have another look at the alsa project page for installation instructions.

Also, as a thought, look for a Mandrake-specific binary (sorry I should have mentioned that this might be available earlier).

The OSS modules manage the sound driver, but I think you don't need them ...

Quote:

PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:11.0
emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 7 model 0x8031 found, IO at 0x1420-0x143f, IRQ 10
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.15, 17:27:24 Sep 23 2001

So, erm ... waiting for someone else to butt in here.

lackluster · 06-21-2002, 01:15 PM

nutshell,

I just read this whole post; please tell me you got it to work - I'm getting depressed about my sound

DavidPhillips · 06-21-2002, 08:06 PM

me too

tksysv works in mandrake

but on mine it's not starting alsa

mine is in the old /etc/modules.conf file

alias sound-slot-0 maestro3
mandrake 8.1 is so much like redhat 7.1 it almost makes me suspicious

lackluster · 06-21-2002, 09:26 PM

>>old /etc/modules.conf

??

what do you mean? I thought /etc/conf.modules was old or did you mean something else?

nutshell · 06-21-2002, 10:01 PM

Hi,

Unfortunately, i haven't been getting the sound to work, and i'm really annoyed! No sound? *SIGH* This is what i'm gonna do. After next week i'll be on holiday and i'm gonna install another distro, either Debian Or Slackware. I hope it will then get my sound back. I'lve also heard that it's a pain to mess around with libraries and stuff like that on Mandrake.

If you want we can keep in contact, u guys use msn or what?

Bye

DavidPhillips · 06-22-2002, 12:08 PM

I guess I just used the term old as an expression. What I was refering to is loading a module as opposed to building it into the kernel.

Mandrake, I have yet to rebuild the kernel for my laptop, which is probably what it will take to make my floppy drive work. It worked fine with Redhat 7.2. Something to do with a conflict, due to Plug and Pray.