GA-7VAX Onboard Audio (Realtek ALC650) needs to be setup again each boot!

philipm · 01-21-2006, 11:50 AM

I've just recently upgraded from SuSE 9.2 to 10.0. My internal soundcard has to be setup with Yast each time I restart the system, at which point it seems to be fine, but it will be unconfigured the next time I boot the system up.

Even when not working, Yast actually thinks it's there - its entry appears on the sound configuration dialogue with a '0' in the number field. But other applications, such as Xine and Kaffine will not know it's there until I delete and set up the card again. Here's the output from Xine when the card hasn't be setup:

Code:

This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.2.
(c) 2000-2004 The xine Team.
ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:955:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:3962:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2094:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
WOW, string key gui.logo_mrl isn't registered

Here's the information from lspci:

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge
00:0d.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 NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x] (rev c1)

Kernel:
2.6.13-15-default

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

halvy · 01-23-2006, 01:20 PM

is the card compatible with linux (ie drivers are availible).

run alsaconf, then reset your volume (mixer).

philipm · 01-23-2006, 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by halvy

is the card compatible with linux (ie drivers are availible).

Well, since I've already stated it works fine each time I set it up, I'd say it is compatible, yes.

Quote:

Originally Posted by halvy

run alsaconf, then reset your volume (mixer).

I just get "command not found" when I type alsaconf at a shell. It doesn't seem to be available to install from Yast, either.

halvy · 01-23-2006, 05:19 PM

well get a rpm for your version os, or compile it.

there is a good chance it might help.

install the whole alsa packages... or at least the ones you need for your card.

let us know..

philipm · 01-29-2006, 07:55 AM

It turns out I already had alsaconf, it just wasn't in my path. If I execute it: "/usr/sbin/alsaconf" , then run: "alsactl store", I just get the same results as when setting it up with YAST: it works until the next reboot.

The "alsactl store" step I got from a forum with a guy having the exact same problem with virtually identical hardware: http://help.lockergnome.com/index.php?showtopic=29794 . Post #12 there suggests adding the line "snd_atiixp" to /etc/modules (which I took to mean /etc/modules.conf), but doing that had no effect either.

So, I have no problem getting it to work, it just won't stay working! Whatever data that needs to be saved isn't being (this seems to be borne out by Yast which spends ages on the "saving" step before moving on)

So, any more suggestions, anyone?

halvy · 01-30-2006, 01:09 AM

i would install webmin.

install as many modules as you can with it... even ones you don't use (yet)... in order to make the program usefull after install.

then you should be able to see better (especially in the Bootup & Shutdown screen) settings that need to be on during bootup.. including your alsa settings.

but make sure you only have alsa-utils set up to boot... (and if you use oss, then oss-preserve as well).

with webmin (like the old 'Linuxconf') you will have the resources handy to administer your system much more easily than what you are trying to do now.

let us know..