no sound at all no console beep nothing debian
 

I have no sound at all nothing. I just recompiled my kernel from 2.4.25 to 2.6.7 and now i have no sound. my users are part of the audio group, but i don't think that matters for a console beep, nor is a sound card that i know of. I'm not running X or any GUI at the moment because of my onboard video is frustrating, which is another thing i haven't been able to find easily on how to fix or trying it. I have the out put of lsmod and lspci -v for the video card and the sound card.

lsmod :

Module Size Used by
af_packet 20872 2
ipv6 221664 8
thermal 12944 0
fan 4236 0
button 6552 0
processor 17584 1 thermal
usb_storage 58688 0
snd_via82xx 26788 0
snd_ac97_codec 59652 1 snd_via82xx
snd_pcm 86052 1 snd_via82xx
snd_timer 23300 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11144 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
gameport 4736 1 snd_via82xx
snd_mpu401_uart 7296 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 23488 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 7944 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 51684 7 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
uhci_hcd 29200 0
via_agp 8576 1
agpgart 31272 1 via_agp
evdev 9088 0
ehci_hcd 27908 0
usbcore 101088 5 usb_storage,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
via82cxxx_audio 26248 0
uart401 11588 1 via82cxxx_audio
sound 75820 2 via82cxxx_audio,uart401
soundcore 9824 3 snd,via82cxxx_audio,sound
ac97_codec 16908 1 via82cxxx_audio
via_rhine 19976 0
mii 4992 1 via_rhine
crc32 4608 1 via_rhine
rtc 12216 0
unix 26032 22


lspci -v just for the video card:

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 140c
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [70] AGP version 2.0

lspci -v just for the sound card:
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 140b
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 22
I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

What config file did you use when you compiled you new kernel?

Did you just copy over your old kernel config file, the defconfig file that comes with the kernel or did you configure your own kernel?

I know when I went to 2.6.7, I had to modify the audio settings within the .config file. I had to disable OSS and ALSA on the kernel, but enable Sound Card support. Then when I ran alsaconfig (v1.0.5) everything configured properly. Otherwise I got the same no soundcard found issue.

If you haven't configured the 2.6.7 kernel, go to the

/usr/src/linux

cp .config .config-bak
make mrproper
cp .config-bak .config
make xconfig

(fix your audio settings and save/exit)

make
su -c "make modules_install"
make install

reboot and try running alsaconf again.

If it fails, you just have to make mrproper and cp .config-bak .config and remake and you'll be right back where you just were.

Hope this gives you some help.

d4m

i used the one in /usr/src/linux-2.6.7/.config , then configured it from there but all i mainly want is the console beep at least for now, i know it sounds weird but i kinda like it. The sound card shouldn't effect the pc speaker should it??

that I'm not particually sure of.. I usually rip out the PC speaker in my systems cause I find the beep annoying as hell. Only put it back in when the system won't start or something so I can hear the beep pattern given off.

Someone else has to answer that for you.

lol thanks i'll see if i can get that sound card working anyway

Aug 8 20:33:14 localhost kernel: Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac3
Aug 8 20:33:14 localhost kernel: via82cxxx: Six channel audio available
Aug 8 20:33:14 localhost kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:11.5 to 64
Aug 8 20:33:14 localhost kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ICE82 (Unknown)
Aug 8 20:33:14 localhost kernel: via82cxxx: board #1 at 0xE000, IRQ 22


i don't know if this will help at all but this is from the kernel logs