Added wireless card, now no sound on Intel i810

rustynailz · 09-17-2004, 04:39 PM

I installed a new wireless PCI card today and now I don't have sound...

My soundcard is an onboard Intel i810.

MDK 10.0, kernel 2.6.3-7mdk-smp

Code:

/sbin/lsmod:
Module                  Size  Used by
snd-mixer-oss          19008  0
snd-ac97-codec         59588  0
snd-timer              26660  0
gameport                5664  0
snd-mpu401-uart         8320  0
snd-rawmidi            25248  1 snd-mpu401-uart
snd-seq-device          9032  1 snd-rawmidi
snd                    55492  6 snd-mixer-oss,snd-ac97-codec,snd-timer,snd-mpu401-uart,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device
snd-page-alloc          9352  0
md5                     4864  1
ipv6                  251392  8
fglrx                 206756  3
sg                     40028  0
sr_mod                 18116  0
parport_pc             34304  1
lp                     13256  0
parport                41032  2 parport_pc,lp
i810_audio             34420  0
ac97_codec             18828  1 i810_audio
soundcore              10560  2 snd,i810_audio
ath_pci                38308  0
wlan                   59048  2 ath_pci
ath_hal               129136  2 ath_pci
af_packet              22632  2
raw                     8640  2
ide-floppy             19776  0
ide-tape               36752  0
ide-cd                 41764  0
cdrom                  38272  2 sr_mod,ide-cd
floppy                 61620  0
e100                   62888  0
ohci1394               35684  0
ieee1394              290480  1 ohci1394
nls_cp437               6560  1
vfat                   15680  1
fat                    47360  1 vfat
nls_iso8859-1           4896  3
ntfs                   87532  2
supermount             39856  2
intel-agp              18364  1
agpgart                32460  2 intel-agp
usb-storage            74596  0
tsdev                   8160  0
joydev                 11264  0
evdev                  10496  0
usblp                  13696  0
usbmouse                6208  0
hid                    55360  0
ehci-hcd               25572  0
uhci-hcd               31856  0
usbcore               103228  8 usb-storage,usblp,usbmouse,hid,ehci-hcd,uhci-hcd
rtc                    13640  0
ext3                  114216  1
jbd                    61976  1 ext3
sd_mod                 17696  0
ata_piix                8836  0
libata                 40256  1 ata_piix,[permanent]
scsi_mod              117104  5 sg,sr_mod,usb-storage,sd_mod,libata

lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB2 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV280 [Radeon 9200] (rev 01)
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5941 (rev 01)
02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): NEC Corporation: Unknown device 00f2 (rev 01)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 168c:0013 (rev 01)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1050 (rev 01)

I tried fixing this my installing the new 1.0.6 ALSA drivers, but this didn't work. I have a slew of dmesg problems all relating to snd_pcm messages on snd-intel8x0. I think the problem may be due to OSS being used as well as ALSA - I see a lot of oss modules, but don't know how to remove them.

Any assistance here would be really appreciated.

tricky_linux · 09-18-2004, 10:42 AM

did you check the volume of your speaker?
because alsa was muted my default.
use mixer to turn it up
also, there might a resource conflict.
try to disable some port that you dont' use in order to free up resource or irqs.
most common one would be serial port, etc.

rustynailz · 09-18-2004, 12:45 PM

Yeah, that's the first thing I tried.

The problem was that my soundcard drivers implicitly installed ALSA 1.0.1. When I modprobe'd the wireless card, I should have just recompiled the ALSA drivers from 1.0.1. Once I uninstalled 1.0.1 and then reinstalled 1.0.6 it worked OK, except for a permission problem for non-root users (which, despite loads of tinkering with chgrp and chmod, still persists).

Thanks for your help.

Russ

mritch · 09-18-2004, 02:24 PM

can you reconfigure alsa somehow? (i don't know - don't use it yet) maybe some hardware (sound) got reassigned to another address.

sl mritch.