Nforce Sound/Debian issue

lil_drummaboy · 03-14-2005, 12:18 PM

Hi,

I am running Debian 3.1 Sarge and I have the 2.6.8-2-k7 (Athlon) kernel installed. I have installed the Nvidia sound and NIC driver and I have a module issue, my sound card is being loaded as "i810_audio" before the "Nvsound" module can load it. Here is the output of my dmesg, grep-ed to show the problem:

Code:

aries:~# dmesg | grep audio
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0, new EID value = 0x05c7
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0, DAC map configured, total channels = 6
i810_audio: setting clocking to 48648

So you can see i810_audio is taking it and it is not a AC'97 codec soundcard obviously.

-and-

Code:

aries:~# dmesg | grep Nv
Nvsound: Nvidia Audio Init Module, 18:04:35 Mar 13 2005 version 1.0-1
Nvsound:  NVIDIA nForce2 Controller found at Mem 0xe5000000 and IRQ b9

So, i am not sure if the i810_audio is the problem, but I think the i810_audio is taking the device before it's real driver can. Here is my /etc/modprobe.d/aliases entry for the driver.

Code:

alias eth0 nvnet
alias snd-card-0 Nvsound

I have looked in all the files under /etc/modprobe.d/ and /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-k7/ and cannot find where i810_audio is being called from. Any suggestions?

bobbens · 03-14-2005, 03:13 PM

I've had sound problems in the past with my nforce2 chipset. the best solution i've fouind is to not install the nvidia drivers. The alsa ones work just fine, and if you try to install both they seem to fight each other all the time. See my old post. Oh and the default internet drivers work just as well or better then the nvidia ones. They've stopped releasing updates to those drivers since the open source community is doing better (and the modules are alot smaller).

lil_drummaboy · 03-14-2005, 05:53 PM

it's a 6 channel card. if you use ALSA you only have 2

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bobbens · 03-15-2005, 04:22 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by lil_drummaboy
it's a 6 channel card. if you use ALSA you only have 2 .

didn't know that, ouch.