this setup was working a few days back, I'd compiled my own kernel and alsa-source. It's totally borked now and I'm tearing my hair out.. I recompiled to add usb since I have a new usb webcam, and things got shot to hell from then onwards {it's been 2 days without music ;-(.}

lets see.
lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 21)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC AGP (rev 7a)

LSMOD
Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-pcm-oss 34564 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-pcm 50916 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-opl3-lib 5188 0 (autoclean)
snd-mpu401-uart 2688 0 (autoclean)
snd-rawmidi 11904 0 (autoclean) [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-page-alloc 5396 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-hwdep 4672 0 (autoclean) [snd-opl3-lib]
snd-timer 12388 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm snd-opl3-lib]
snd-seq-device 3664 0 (autoclean) [snd-opl3-lib snd-rawmidi]
snd-mixer-oss 10768 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd 26308 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm snd-opl3-lib snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-hwdep snd-timer snd-seq-device snd-mixer-oss]
soundcore 3364 0 (autoclean) [snd]
af_packet 12328 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 4316 2 (autoclean)
vfat 9260 1 (autoclean)
fat 29464 0 (autoclean) [vfat]

dmesg|less
C-Media PCI soundcard not found or device busy
C-Media PCI soundcard not found or device busy
C-Media PCI soundcard not found or device busy
C-Media PCI soundcard not found or device busy
< frustration! >

not using devfs. did run the snddevices script in the alsa install.
devfs was installed earlier though.

please help!

Cheers, N

PS some extra info below:

/etc/init.d/alsa start
Starting ALSA (version 0.9.8): cmipci-failed failed

part of modules.conf
# This file was automatically generated by alsa-base's debconf stuff

alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore

options snd major=116 cards_limit=4

alias snd-card-0 snd-cmipci

alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/dsp* snd-pcm-oss


alias snd-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-slot-0

Your lspci output doesn't contain anything about an 8738 chip. It should be detected like this (more or less):Is the card properly inserted? Did you change any BIOS settings recently, or something similar?


Håkan

I'm using Kurumin 3.2 (Brazil).
I have a sound devide exactly the same as yours (CMI 8738).
While using in Windows Xp I managed to configure it to work as 5.1.
I'm not that lucky in Linux yet.
Many Thanks
Julio Borges
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil

Let take a ride in Doobien's thread.

My lspci shows my cm8738 but I still get no 5.1 sound. The only sound I get is in the 2 front speakers the other 4 are still mute.

Do anybody has any sugestion??

Thanks a lot.

Julio Borges
Rio de Janeiro