Help plz!

I recently upgraded to a GA-8IPE 1000 Pro motherboard (fried a capacitor on my old one) and after boot-up discovered I had no sound. I got the error message: "Couldnt open mixer device /dev/soundl/mixer." On shut down I noticed the following: "module sound-slot-0, sound-service-0-3 not found."

I looked into /dev and found two files "mixer and mixer1 (both of zero k)", but no /dev/sound/mixer directory.

My motherboard has a built-in sound card: "Realtek AC'97 Audio (Realtek Semiconductor.) Location: PCI Bus0, device 31, function 5. Driver: 8/15/03, 5.10.0.5300 (as per WinnersXP, which is on hda of a dual boot sys.) I'm running RH Linux 9.0 , kernel 2.4.20-31.9.

I told GigaByte I didn't do MicroSoft and they told me they didn't do Linux. I replied that they just lost a customer. They did direct me to RealTek whos web-site wanted info regarding the sound card chip-set which I had no idea what it was asking for.

Has anyone had a similar problem? Ten karma points for your kind assistance. philtr

from linux issue /sbin/lspci -v from a terminal, that info should report the chipset of the soundcard if it is on the pci bus. once armed w/that info, someone here can help you find support if it exists.

i got the following:

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology: Unknown device a002
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
I/O ports at b400 [size=256]
I/O ports at b800 [size=64]
Memory at fc001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at fc002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

Hope this helps. philtr

from a terminal as root issue

modprobe i810_audio

if that doesn't work have a look in lib/modules/yourkernelversion/kernel/drivers/sound you'll be looking for i810, when you locate the appropriate module, modprobe it. then add it to your etc/modules.conf.

alias sound_slot_0 module name

if the module loads, then you'll need to run a mixer and unmute your sound. these instructions are for the oss modules. you may however choose to go the alsa route. to do this (i'm not sure if redhat 9.0 comes w/alsa)

from a terminal as root issue

alsaconf, if it is succesful it should find your card and allow you to configure it. if it is not have a look here

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...odule=intel8x0

if alsaconf goes alright, then you'll want to run

alsamixer, unmute your volume and set default levels then run

alsactl store to save the settings across a reboot. hope something here gets you going.
good luck.

Hmmm...got problems.

I get the following error with the command "modprobe i810_audio": "Kernel requires old modprobe, but couldn't run modprobe.old: no such file or directory."

I ran this command both as user (as 'su' in terminal mode) and root with same results.

RH must have stripped-out some functionality when it came out with 9.0. philtr

is there actually an i810_audio module? have a look in

lib/modules/yourkernelversion/kernel/drivers/sound

what modules are there?

Yes, there is a file "i810_audio.o" (32.6k) in: /lib/modules/2.4.20-31.9/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o.

I looked for modprob and found it in "/sbin/modprobe" but, it only pointed to "insmod" (which was the same size (142.7k) and in the same directory (/sbin).) Neither modprobe nor insmod had extensions. philtr

what does lsmod give?

bash-2.05b$ insmod i810_audio
bash: insmod: command not found
bash-2.05b$

bash-2.05b$ su
Password:
bash-2.05b# insmod i810_audio
bash: insmod: command not found
bash-2.05b#

Same sad song! This could get damn depressing if I weren't such an optimist! Heheh! Logging out and doing it as 'root' will take a bit as I have four workspaces in use at the moment. philtr

try su -
password

then try

modprobe i810_audio

first lets see if the modules are loaded already post the output of lsmod.

bash-2.05b$ su
Password:
bash-2.05b# modprobe i810_audio
bash: modprobe: command not found
bash-2.05b# lsmod
Kernel requires old lsmod, but couldn't run lsmod.old: No such file or directory
bash-2.05b#

try su -

instead of su

Daing! Eurika! even.

Module Size Used by Not tainted
soundcore 6404 0 (autoclean)
binfmt_misc 7432 1
parport_pc 19076 1 (autoclean)
lp 8996 0 (autoclean)
parport 37056 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
nfsd 80176 8 (autoclean)
lockd 58704 1 (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc 81564 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
autofs 13268 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ipt_ttl 1144 1 (autoclean)
ipt_limit 1560 34 (autoclean)
ipt_unclean 8024 3 (autoclean)
ipt_TCPMSS 3032 1 (autoclean)
ip_nat_irc 3280 0 (unused)
ip_nat_ftp 4112 0 (unused)
ipt_state 1080 7 (autoclean)
iptable_mangle 2776 1
ipt_LOG 4184 1
ipt_MASQUERADE 2200 1
ipt_TOS 1656 20
ipt_REDIRECT 1368 0 (unused)
iptable_nat 21752 3 [ip_nat_irc ip_nat_ftp ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_REDIRECT]
ipt_REJECT 3992 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack_irc 4112 1
ip_conntrack_ftp 5296 1
ip_conntrack 27304 4 [ip_nat_irc ip_nat_ftp ipt_state ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_REDIRECT iptable_nat ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp]
iptable_filter 2412 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 15096 15 [ipt_ttl ipt_limit ipt_unclean ipt_TCPMSS ipt_state iptable_mangle ipt_LOG ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_TOS ipt_REDIRECT iptable_nat ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
ppp_synctty 7904 0 (unused)
ppp_async 9440 1
ppp_generic 24444 3 [ppp_synctty ppp_async]
slhc 6756 0 [ppp_generic]
dmfe 17057 1
8139too 18120 1
mii 3976 0 [8139too]
sg 36524 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 18136 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 12208 0
scsi_mod 107544 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 35712 0
cdrom 33728 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ohci1394 20168 0 (unused)
ieee1394 48780 0 [ohci1394]
nls_iso8859-1 3516 2 (autoclean)
ntfs 59008 2 (autoclean)
keybdev 2976 0 (unused)
mousedev 5556 1
hid 22244 0 (unused)
input 5856 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci 26412 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 20072 0 (unused)
usbcore 79040 1 [hid usb-uhci ehci-hcd]
ext3 70784 2
jbd 51988 2 [ext3]
-bash-2.05b#

It's all Linux to me. philtr

aight, the module isn't loaded unless it's compiled in the kernel, my guess is no, so now as

su -

try

modprobe i810_audio

post the results.

-bash-2.05b# modprobe i810_audio
/lib/modules/2.4.20-31.9/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.20-31.9/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-31.9/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-31.9/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: insmod i810_audio failed
-bash-2.05b#

Looks like the module didn't load. philtr